TYPES OF ABUSE

EMOTIONAL ABUSE
PHYSICAL ABUSE
SEXUAL ABUSE
ABANDONMENT
NEGLECTFUL SUPERVISION
MEDICAL NEGLECT
PHYSICAL NEGLECT
 

Emotional Abuse

Mental or emotional injury to a child that results in an observable and material impairment in the child's growth, development, or psychological functioning. It is causing or permitting the child to be in a situation in which the child sustains a mental or emotional injury that results in an observable and material impairment in the child's growth, development, or psychological functioning.

Physical Abuse

Physical injury that results in substantial harm to the child, or the genuine threat of substantial harm from physical injury to the child, including an injury that is at variance with the history or explanation given. This excludes an accident or reasonable discipline by a parent, guardian, or managing or possessory conservator that does not expose the child to a substantial risk of harm. It is also the failure to make a reasonable effort to prevent an action by another person that results in physical injury and substantial harm to the child.

Sexual Abuse

Sexual contact, sexual intercourse, or sexual conduct, as those terms are defined by law, including: sexual penetration with a foreign object, incest, sexual assault, sodomy inflicted on, shown to, or intentionally practiced in the presence of a child to arouse or gratify the sexual desires of any person. It is also the failure to make a reasonable effort to prevent sexual contact, sexual intercourse, or sexual conduct, as those terms are defined by law and as they are described above. This includes compelling or encouraging the child to engage in sexual conduct as defined by law.

Abandonment

Leaving a child in a situation exposing him / her to substantial risk of harm, without arranging for necessary care for the child, when there is a demonstrated intent not to return by the parent, guardian, or managing or possessor conservator of the child.

Neglectful Supervision

Placing the child in or failure to remove the child from a situation that a reasonable person would realize requires judgment or actions beyond the child's level of maturity, physical condition, or mental abilities and that results in bodily injury or substantial risk of immediate harm to the child.

Medical Neglect

The failure to seek, obtain, or follow through with medical care for the child, with the failure resulting in or presenting a substantial risk of death, disfigurement, or bodily injury or with the failure resulting in an observable and material impairment to the growth, development, or functioning of the child.

Physical Neglect

The failure to provide the child with food, clothing, or shelter necessary to sustain the life or health of the child, excluding failure caused primarily by financial inability unless relief services had been offered and refused.