Child Maltreatment 2019: Summary of Key Findings

such as friends, neighbors, and relatives, or by unclassified reporters (15.7 percent), a category that includes anonymous and unknown reporters. WHO WERE THE CHILD VICTIMS? In FFY 2019, an estimated 656,000 children were victims of abuse or neglect nationwide, which is a rate of 8.9 victims per 1,000 children in the population.

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