| Type of abuse |
Definition |
| Abandonment |
The leaving of a child in a situation
where the child would be exposed to a substantial risk of
physical or mental harm, without arranging for necessary
care for the child, and a demonstration of an intent not
to return by a parent, guardian, or managing or
possessory conservator of the child. |
| 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. |
| Medical Neglect |
The failing to seek, obtain, or follow
through with medical care for a 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. |
| Neglectful Supervision |
Placing the child in or failing 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 a
substantial risk of immediate harm to the child. |
| 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 and excluding 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. |
| 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. |
| Refusal to Accept Parental
Responsibility |
The failure by the person responsible
for a child's care, custody, or welfare to permit the
child to return to the child's home without arranging for
the necessary care for the child after the child has been
absent from the home for any reason, including having
been in residential placement or having run away. |
| Sexual Abuse |
Sexual conduct harmful to a child's
mental, emotional, or physical welfare. Or a failure to
make a reasonable effort to prevent sexual conduct
harmful to a child. |
| Unduplicated Confirmed Victims |
Victims have been unduplicated by investigation stage.
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