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Fictional victims of child abuse, physical, sexual, and/or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child or children, especially by a parent or a caregiver. Child abuse may include any act or failure to act by a parent or a caregiver that results in actual or potential harm to a child and can occur in a child's home, or in the organizations, schools, or communities the child interacts with.
Michael Lee Porter (stepfather) was charged with sexual assault and first-degree murder, but in February 2007, he pleaded guilty to enabling child abuse and was sentenced to 30 years in prison. [ 7 ] Raye Dawn Smith (biological mother) was convicted on July 18, 2007, of enabling child abuse and was sentenced to 27 years in prison. [ 8 ]
The murder of Elisa Izquierdo occurred in November 1995 in Manhattan, New York City. [3] Izquierdo was a six-year-old Puerto Rican–Cuban-American girl [2] who died of a brain hemorrhage [2] inflicted by her mother, Awilda Lopez, at the peak of a prolonged and escalating campaign of physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse conducted between 1994 and 1995.
Candace Elizabeth Newmaker (born Candace Tiara Elmore; November 19, 1989 – April 19, 2000) was a child who was killed during a 70-minute attachment therapy session performed by four unlicensed therapists, purported to treat reactive attachment disorder. The treatment, during which Newmaker was suffocated, included a rebirthing script.
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (first published in 1988, with three subsequent editions, the last being a 20th anniversary edition in 2008) is a self-help book by poet Ellen Bass and Laura Davis that focuses on recovery from child sexual abuse and has been called "controversial and polarizing".
C. Henry Kempe (birth name Karl Heinz Kempe; April 6, 1922 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) – March 3, 1984 in Hanauma Bay, Hawaii) was an American pediatrician and the first in the medical community to identify and recognize child abuse.
The memo stated, "The judge believed Ms. Peterson (and) did not feel she was guilty of child abuse." [citation needed] This alleged finding despite the medical evidence and the results of the police investigation, along with the lack of substantiating court documents, was never questioned by her supervisors. As a result, Terrell was deemed to ...
I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sex Abuse is a 1983 book edited by Ellen Bass and Louise Thornton and marked Bass's first published non-fiction work. [1] It was published by Harper and Row and contains a collection of numerous child sexual abuse testimonials from a wide range of original source material including book ...