Happening Now - VFC CASA Child Abuse and Neglect Statistics

As of February 9, 2012 - Voices For Children CASA volunteers are working on 55 child abuse and neglect cases involving 95 (47 females and 48 males) children in Boulder County. CASA volunteers advocate for children involved in the most serious cases of maltreatment.

Reasons for Case *
34 cases - substance abuse
  4 cases - abandonment
12 cases - domestic violence
42 cases - neglect
23 cases - mental illness
11 cases - physical abuse
15 cases - sexual abuse
11 cases - other reasons

Victims by Age:
31 children age 5 or younger
28 children ages 6 to 12
36 children aged 13 & older

Race\Ethnicity:
54 Caucasian
29 Hispanic
12 other

* Multiple forms of abuse and neglect may occur in a single abuse and neglect case.

 

 

 

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