The Silent Crime
Child abuse numbers soar...
Children Sitting In Silence
The silent crime of child abuse is a rapidly ascending issue affecting millions of children across the world. Child abuse also known as the silent crime kills five children everyday across the globe and around 1,580 every year. Child abuse has been going on for centuries and comes in the form of physical and phscological abuse. These actions that parents or guardians take up against their children makes the child six times more likely to abuse their own children thus creating a knock on affect. This is because the physiological affects of abuse stay with the victim for the rest of their lives.