CHILD ABUSE

TYPES OF CHILD ABUSE:

• Physical Abuse
• Emotional Abuse
• Sexual Abuse
• Neglect
• Family Abuse

DEFINE PHYSICAL ABUSE

• Defined as the use of physical force that causes bodily harm
• Physical abuse includes striking, hitting, beating, pushing
• kicking, slapping, burning, pinching, whipping etc.
• Children develop traumatic stress, anxiety, depression
• Is the 2nd most common form of child maltreatment

PENALTY: PHYSICAL ABUSE

• Section 215: Duty of Persons To Provide Necessaries
• It is unlawful to fail to provide the neccessaries for a child under 16
• Necessaries that must be provided: food, shelter,clothing
• Care, love, support, supervision, control, showing moral guid.
• Maximum Penalty: 2 Years Summary and/or indictable

PHYSICAL ABUSE: WEAPONS

• Section 267: Assault with a weapon or bodily harm
• Prohibits the carrying, use of or the threat to use a weapon for
• the purpose of assault. Prohibits bodily harm as defined by any hurt or injury
• that interfeeres with health comfort
• Maximum Penalty: 10 Years

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DEFINITION OF CHILD PSYCH. ABUSE

• Behaviour of guardians dismantling child's state of mind
• This behaviour includes actions such as: rejecting,
• Isolating, exploiting/corrupting, terrorizing, and
• Verbal assaulting which involves shaming/belittling
• This happens because the guardian is stressed or evil

PENALTY: EMOTIONAL ABUSE

• Its in the section 172: Corrupting Children
• The morals of a child to be endangered by adultery
• Sexual immortality and habitual drunkenness or something
• other forms of vice, rendering the home an unfit place for a child
• Maximum Penalty: 2 Years

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CHILD MOLESTATION: SEXUAL ABUSE

• Form of abuse in which an adult exploits a child
• Forms of sexual abuse includes: pressuring,
• Indecent exposure, sexual contact, or using
• The child to produce child pornography
• Can occur in homes, schools, and churches

PENALTY OF CHILD MOLESTATION

• Section 151-153 of the CCC
• An adult who overtly sexually touches the child
• In any way or to force the the child to touch
• Maximum punishment for summary offence is 2 years
• Maximum punishment for indictable offence: 10 years

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DEFINITION OF CHILD NEGLECT

• The failure to care for the child properly
• Parent(s) will lose custody of child if they don't:
• Provide food, shelter, clothing, care, support,
• Adequate supervision, and moral guidance
• Deemed unfit if you cannot prove most of these points

FAMILY VIOLENCE

• When 2 or more family members fight/argue
• Which in worse scenario cases leads to domestic violence
• Children who witness this ona daily basis are vulnerable
• Child witnessing family/domestic violence is at risk of:
• Aggressive language and behaviour, anxiety/depression

CASEY ANTHONY: SUMMARY

• Born in Ohio, March 16, 1986
• Known infamously after disappearance of her child
• As the case unfolded, many assured she was guilty
• But the jury thought differently and acquitted her of:
• 1st degree murder, child abuse, manslaughter of child

FACTS OF THE CASE

• Casey gives birth to Caylee at age 19
• June 8/05 she reports Caylee's disappearance
• In Orange County, FLA. June 27/08 Casey
• Abandons her Pontiac Sunfire in a parking lot
• Which is then towed 3 days later

FACTS CONTINUED

• July 15/08 Cindy Anthony reports Casey to the police
• For suspicion of stealing their car and money ALSO
• Reporting that Casey's car was found and smelt like remains
• Next day Casey is arrested for suspicion of child neglect
• July 17, cadaver dog picks up scent of remains in her car

MORE FACTS

• Aug.5th Casey is formally charged of child neglect
• She is sent to jail but released on $500,000 bail Aug.21
• Sheriff's samples of the air in the car shows that it
• Once held the remains of a decomposing body
• Casey is arrested for:check forgery, petty theft

SOME MORE FACTS

• A Florida grand jury indicts Casey on capital murder
• Casey pleads not guilty to murder charges, but theft
• Her child neglect charges are dropped
• Orange-Osceola state attorney says no death penalty
• But later seeks death penalty, when remains found in woods

AND FACTS

• The prosecutors then announce they seek death penalty
• Casey pleads guilty of 13 cases of check fraud
• Captial murder trial of Casey Anthony starts in Orlando
• Defense attorney Jose Baez states that Casey's father
• Began molesting Casey at the age of 8

MORE FACTS

• Baez stated Caylee drowned in Anthony family pool
• On June 16, 2008, that George&Casey covered up the death
• Casey does not testify
• Both the defense and prosecution rest and jury deliberates
• 7 women and 5 men jury deliberate for 10 hours and 40 mins

VERDICT OF CASEY ANTHONY

• Not guilty of 1st degree murder
• Not guilty of child abuse& mansalughter
• Guilty of 4 counts of obstructing the law
• She served 4 years in jail for 4 counts of lying
• Fined $1,000 for each count

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WORKS CITED

• www.asca.org.au/About/Resources/Types-of-child-abuse.aspx
• Criminal.lawyers.com/sexual-crimes/blogs/archives/53
• Http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/04/us/casey-anthony-trial-fast-facts/
• www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/childsexualabuse.html
• www.americanhumane.org/children/stop-child-abuse/fact-sheets/emotional-abus...