Child Abuse: When Justice Fails

Children are suppose to be protected from people that would cause them any harm. What if the person causing the harm to the child are their own family? What if the child was being abused and not properly cared for on a daily basis? Most would think that someone would step in and make sure the child was removed from the situation. What if the justice system fails the child and they are left to be neglected and abused? How is this going to encourage others to report child abuse? We are all told to do our part and report suspected child abuse, but so often the reports are overlooked and nothing is done to protect the innocent child. What becomes of a child that suffered abuse? Are these abused children the ones that decide they have had enough, and murder there abusers? Maybe child abuse and neglect contribute to teenagers that bring guns to school and shoot other innocent children.

There needs to be changes made to a system that allows a child to stay in a home where they are neglected and abused. Too many times the reports are not checked into as thoroughly as needed. Children are slipping through the system and remaining victims of child abuse. One case that recently slipped through is the story of a nine year old girl. She has been moved from state to state with her mother. Her mother does not provide the supervision a child requires. She is too concerned with finding a boyfriend to worry about her troubled child. The mother will leave for weeks at a time with different men while the girl is left with her relatives.