Abuse Facts - Confirmed

2003 Texas

• Physical abuse: 36,606
  
  
• Sexual abuse: 7,473
  
  
• Abandonment: 420
  
  
• Medical neglect: 2,371
  
  
• Physical neglect: 7,198
  
  
• Neglectful Supervision: 26,398
  
  
• Refusal to accept parental responsibility: 845
  
  
• Emotional abuse: 1067

Total Physical Abuse:

• 60-70% of abused children suffers bruises and welts 15-20% incurs skeletal injury.
  
  
• 25-30% of cases involves brain or neuromotor dysfunction

Social Abuse:

• 50% of runaway youth have been physically abused and an even greater percentage have been sexually abused.
  
  
• 60% of prostitutes have been sexually abused as children.
  
  
• 65% of prison inmates at the Ferguson Unit (TDC) have been abused as children.
  
  
• 90% of convicted murderers were physically abused as children.

Emotional & Psychological:

• 50% abused children have school related problems.
  
  
• 22% suffer learning disorders requiring special education.
  
  
• 60-80% of adult drug or alcohol abusers have a history of child abuse.