I found this website that is all about child abuse. I just thought that this information might be helpful to some of the questions you might be asking to yourself. Also, here is a couple stories I found on a different profile on blogger. Here is what it says:

Here are some TRUE STORIES:
-->> P.S: You might need a box of tissues if you are the sensitive-type:
This one is about a girl whose mother had starved her for years:


The girl told the police that her stepmother disciplined her for behavioral problems by restricting her water intake, giving her half a Dixie cup of water each day. Long allegedly monitored the girl's showers and wouldn't let her brush her teeth so she couldn't sneak drinks. She fed her a diet mostly of toast, court documents say.

Here's another one:


My mum met my step-dad when I was five. After he came into our lives, things changed. At times he could be ok, take us out as a family and stuff, but at other times he'd get into these nasty moods.

When he was in a mood and going at mum, I used to get between them, even though they both would yell at me to go to my room. Sometimes I got hit by him if I got in the way, but I hated to see mum get hurt.

One night I got home late and my little step-brother was crying, and my step-dad was screaming at my mum, she had a cut on her arm. He was really aggro and I saw him throw an ash-tray at her head. Mum said for me to take my brother and go next door, she looked so scared. The neighbours let us in and told me to call the police. I rang them and told them what was happening.

After about 10 minutes I heard the police drive up, and I could hear my step-dad yelling at them. One of the policemen came next door and told me that they had warned my step-dad that if it happened again he could get charged. They also told me that mum could go to the court for a protection order to stop him from coming near our house.

Even though things quietened down for a while, my step-dad didn't change his ways much. There would still be major blow-ups. He used to hurt our cat, kick it or throw it around if he was mad. He used to pick on my step-brother too, saying he's turning into a wimp and stuff. I could never relax at home, I would have liked to stay out but I didn't want to leave my little brother there on his own. There was a TV in my bedroom, so me and my brother used to watch it with the sound turned up so we didn't have to hear the arguments. I didn't want to invite anyone from school home either, because the atmosphere at home was always crap.

One day mum rang to say I had to finish school early. She said we had to pack up before my step-dad came home. We got everything we could and went to a house called a refuge. It looked like a normal house, but it was miles away from where we lived and it was run by workers. Another family was there as well, and I met a girl my age there. We lived there for four months. My step-dad kept ringing mum on her mobile, and once he said he was going to find her and kill her. Mum called the police and he got charged for making threats.

Eventually things with him went a bit quieter. Mum found another place to live and we moved there. Now my step-dad speaks to my mum on the phone but he isn't allowed to come to our place because mum got a court protection order. Recently he took mum to the Family Court because he wanted to see my step-brother. So now about once a month my step-brother has to go to an auntie's place to see him, but I don't.

Last month I went to counselling with my mum. She organised it. The counsellor was nice, she asked me to tell mum how I felt about everything. I asked mum why she didn't leave my step-dad earlier? She got upset and said she wanted to leave him but was worried about what he would do if she did. It was good because we got to hear how each other feels.

Here's another one- its about what happened to an indonesian maid:

A deputy noted that the girl looked pale, emaciated and half her age.Nur, 38 years old, in April 2006 travelled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to work as a housemaid in the employ of Abdullah M Argani. About a year later she gave birth to a daughter, and told that she had been raped by Abdullah’s nephew.

Abdullah and his family did not believe her and reported Nur to the police, and four days after having given birth she was imprisoned in the Ar Ruwais Womens’ Detention Centre in Jeddah, on grounds of sexual license. She was sentenced to two years jail and 2000 strokes of the cane.

Indonesian labour activists and the government attempted to intercede on her behalf and she eventually received only 50 lashes and was released in late October 2008.

While in prison Nur contacted her husband in Puger, Jember, East Java, and advised him to divorce her and marry again. She also attempted to give up her child to a family in Saudi Arabia, but her husband said he was willing to accept the child as his own.

Nur returned to Indonesia in early November 2008, along with baby Rani Dwi Lestari, now 18 months old, and lives again with her husband in Puger.

The worst abuse:

A 3-year-old girl's face was disfigured after she was bitten, allegedly by her mother's boyfriend.

Bryan James, 34, and Jessica Silveria, 26, were arrested Wednesday afternoon after police, acting on a tip, stopped their car in New Bedford.
James and Silveria had been the subjects of an intense manhunt since warrants were issued for their arrests on Tuesday. James put up a brief struggle after officers stopped his vehicle to arrest him, police said.
Police said James inflicted abuse on Silveria's 3-year-old daughter, biting the girl's face, lip and ear, leaving her badly disfigured.
"There was a big chunk taken out of the lip. The skin is missing from there. The whole lip is gone," New Bedford Police Department Capt. Richard Spirlet said.
The girl suffered human bites to the face in which she lost the upper part of her lip, Boston TV station WCVB reported. Her ear was so mutilated that surgery could not return it to its natural state.
The child also suffered other human bites on her body, Spirlet said.







This girl in the picture above, she was beaten up by her dad just because of anger issues. She can't say anything or her dad would beat her up even more. Now, she's just an anger-punching-bag for her dad whenever he looses his temper.

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Well, that's all for my post today. Thanks for reading.

This is another video from youtube. It's a story of a young child who was abused from when she was born till she died from the terrible abuse. This about made me start bawling it was so sad.

What are some ways to intervene if someone is getting abused without getting hurt themselves?

What are some ways to intervene if someone is getting abused? A lot of people ponder this very question. There are also other questions going on through someone's head if you do see someone getting abused including: Should I intervene? How can I intervene without getting hurt? Who do I tell? Those are just a few questions that probably go through people's heads if they see someone getting abused. Here are some ways to go about it. If you are a student, and someone tells you that they are getting abused or if you see signs of abuse, you need to either report it to a counselor or teacher. If you see it in public, you can call the police and report abuse, or if you know the person and it happens regularly you should call DCFS so they can take care of the situation and so nobody gets hurt. Although if it's not a severe case they might not have the time or the resources to intervene. This website is for the Illinois DCFS since I couldn't find one that was nation wide.

Here is the video that I tried posting before: Also sad.

And I also found another one called Dear Mr. Jesus: It is probably one of the saddest videos so far.

I found this website very helpful for my blog because it has a lot of information about child abuse on it, including defining child abuse and neglect, identifying child abuse and neglect, and child fatalities. I have learned some helpful information that I'd like to share with you that I found on the link above. There are four main types of neglect: Physical, medical, emotional, and educational neglect. Physical neglect is when you fail to provide the shelter, food, or lack of supervision that is necessary. Medical neglect is when you don't provide the necessary medical treatment for your child. Emotional neglect is the failure to provide psychological care to your child. Educational neglect is when you don't provide the necessary education for your child. Also, I discovered that there were three types of abuse: Physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, but those are pretty self-explanatory. Those are only a few of the things that I found on this website, but if you want to learn more click on the link and it will automatically take you to it.

This makes me want to cry because it's so sad the way people treat their kids...

I have another one but for some reason it won't save onto my computer. I will try to repost it tomorrow, but in case you want to watch it now, here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXqT4kbtPH0&feature=fvw

This is my first official post on my blog. Today I am going to share some information on child abuse from previous knowledge. My brother is adopted, and he was officially adopted about two years ago. Before that, he was abused in his biological home, and again in his first foster home. He was in his biological home till he was two and a half. His biological mother just wasn't fit to take care of him, and she didn't really supervise him very well. In fact, when he was two and a half, he was found wandering in the median of a 4 lane highway right before he was removed from the home. Then, when he was placed into his first foster home, he was abused there. He has scars all over his head from being pushed into walls and doors, and he was never allowed to go outside. For punishment, he was withheld food and water, and when he did get fed, all his foster mom would feed him was peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and water. When he didn't want to eat it, she would force it in his mouth. He absolutely hates peanut butter and jelly now. He was also locked in a room pretty much all the time with only a bed, a dresser, and a TV, which he was allowed to watch whatever he desired to watch, including things that were extremely inappropriate. Other punishments included making him look through the window and stare into the sun so it would hurt his eyes, and making him face a corner of the wall while she beat him with a wooden spoon. He was hospitalized twice for malnutrition before they finally realized that it was because he wasn't being fed. At that time, he was removed and put into a temporary foster home until they could find a permanent home for him. He was there for about two months before he came to live with us, and they treated him wonderfully. As soon as he came to live with us, we started the adoption process, and it was final in June of 2007. He has come a long way since he came to live with us, including his behavior and his ability to love other people. It took him a year before he would show my mom or me much affection because he didn't trust females. This is because the females in his early life abused him. All of this has affected me tremendously, and it has inspired me to adopt when I am old enough so I can save another child from their horrible life being abused and neglected.