Article Text
Community child health, public health, and epidemiology
Are abused babies protected from further abuse?
Abstract
A cohort of 69 physically abused babies under 1 year was followed for three years after the incident. Of the 49 babies who returned home following child protection investigations, 15 were further abused in the three year period, a re-abuse rate of 31%, which is grossly higher than the abuse rate in the general population.
- babies
- child abuse
- follow up
- outcome
- physical abuse
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Footnotes
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Funding: We are grateful to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children for funding this study. The Wales Office of Research and Development funded the original ascertainment of the cohort.
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Possible conflict of interest: AMK, EHP, and JRS have previously been expert witnesses in child protection cases.
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Ethical permission was given by the MREC for Wales.
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