by Anne Harrell

Created on: July 15, 2009   Last Updated: July 21, 2009

Too Many Cries Gone Unheard

Who will take a stand to end child abuse? It is time America takes a stand against the horrendous abuse inflicted on our children daily. Numerous people would cry over how the wildlife kills their young, but here we allow our own flesh and blood to die. We have tolerated the brutal treatment to the most innocent of our own young.

Babies and young children between the ages of 1 -5 years of age, parents have tormented them down to their very last breath. Parents have bowed so low as to tie the child up, use belts to whip until bloody, burn them with cigarettes, starve, bash the child's head against the floor, then have the audacity to tell the doctor that they did not know what happen to the child. Oh, the child is clumsy or defiant when he/she has been critically injured enough to be sent to the hospital, or should I say a funeral home!

Child abuse is a hush-hush secret that stays between the four walls of the home, which very seldom leaks out of the home. Parents tell children not go tell who hit them, or worst, daddy had sexual relations with the child. I am sick of the hush-hush antics of parents keeping quiet over dysfunctional, ungodly, sickend behaviors happening.

Lately, I have picked up the paper and read about several cases of child abuse where the child has died because of physical abuse. Being a survivor of several forms of child abuse, I want child abuse 'stopped'!

On the (Child Welfare - childwelfare.gov published in April 2007,) (Definitions of Child Abuse and Neglect defined by Federal and State Laws.) "Any recent act or failure to act the part of a parent or caretaker, which results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, sexual abuse, or exploitation, or an act or failure to act which presents an imminent risk or serious harm."

Regretfully many children are physically abused each year. A large number of the cases are never reported to authorities, which means the child continues to be abused by the parent(s). The child is fearful to tell anybody about the abuse for fear of being abused more by the parent(s).

Quite a few child abuse cases happen when the child is part of a custody battle, where one parent does not want the other to have the child or children, which leads to the killing the child or children to make sure the other one does not get the child. Stepparents are usually the abusive ones in custody cases; being angry to have to care for the spouse's child or children.

Neurologist Dr. Larry E.

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