Theories still looked, very perfect, but, the practicality is not there, I mean, who will report her/himself for being abusive, besides, a lot of parents feel, that they're only, DISCIPLINING their own young, besides, most of us were raised by the values of "sparing the rod you spoil the child", so yeah, the problem of child abuse is never going to get, solved, because we lacked the awareness of WHAT is and isn't proper in the discipline of the child, because we were raised the same way too…off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Because there may have been multiple caretakers in these child abuse cases, it would be hard to clarify who is actually responsible, outside of the biological parents of the child, there are the grandparents, or the nannies, and it becomes a challenge for the case workers to determine WHO is responsible for abusing the child; the understanding of the Highest Court last year, believed that the indicators of children's physical, emotional abuse is not limited to the period of time the children were abused, or the continuation of abuse, this new interpretation offered a more complete form of child protection, and a huge breakthrough for the investigators investigating the cases of child abuse.
Hou the D.A. who is in charge long-term of prosecuting cases in relation to children and women stated that as the D.A.'s office was reported, it was normally already toward the bottom phases, the children had been abused to too long, to too severe, as the Domestic Violence Prevention Centers found out, and she suggested that the social services, the hospitals, the schools, and other organizations all work together, to be on the frontline of defense of abuse prevention.
Hard to Determine Who's Responsible When There are Multiple Caretakers
Hou and other legal experts observed, that as the cases of abuse involved multiple number of caretakers, like parents, grandparents, nannies, it's normally hard to know who was the abuses, which makes clarifying even more difficult, and, based off of the counts of abuse not getting prosecuted strictly due to suspicions, many of these cases get dropped.
The legal experts stated, that the district attorneys need to try and rule out the suspects, grooming through all the pieces of evidence, the medical reports from the hospitals, evidences, the caretakers of the victims, friends, relatives, neighbors, school instructors, along with all related persons in the social environment, to find the leads, to rule out those who are not suspects of abusing the child, to identify the abusers. As the caretakers are the parents, there are higher chances of one parent's covering for the other.
Because of the continuations in child abuse cases, it's difficult to pinpoint the exact time and date, the injury reports by the hospital are a first indicator of the timing, for instance, three months, six months, the time slot of the medical reports, is the primary way the courts identify who the abuser is, for instance, the medical reports showed that the child had been abused for six months, and the nanny only started working five months ago, so the nanny may be released for not being guilty of abuse, but more often than not, the truth never gets, found.
Hard to Press Charges When the Improper Discipline Had Occurred in the Preschool Setting
Hou analyzed, that on the prevalence of abuse in preschools, there are usually, multiple victims, but there's the gray area of abuse and discipline in the accusations, the perp would claim, "I was only punishing the child for misbehaving", but as the D.A. reviewed the surveillance, they'd often found that the abusers' behaviors are already improper, going from discipline into abuse, including pulling on the child hard, threatening the child, taping the child's hands and feet for punishment, the more severe are of the emotional abuse.
Hou found, in the time as parents noted the injuries on their young that are minor, they normally wouldn't take the children to the E.R. to have their injuries documented, only asked the caretaker about the injuries, and if the injuries are caused by the caretakers, it would be difficult to know the truth. By the time the parents found out about the abuse, it would be past the statute of limitation for assault, or there wasn't any documentations to prove that the child had been injured, because the parents didn't take them to the E.R., and the parents can only sue for obstruction of freedom, and the punishment to the abusers doesn't fit the crimes.
The Determinant of Abuse of Underage Minors Are Really Strict
Hou said, that in the past, the strict definition of abuse of minors of eighteen and younger was long-term, continual abuse for the charges to stand in court.
The legal experts also pointed out, that last year, the Highest Courts gave a different interpretation, believing that the standards of evaluating child abuse is no longer limited to long-term or continuity, but of physical, verbal, emotional, regardless of prevalence, frequency, enough to cause the victims bodily harm of mental distresses, then it constitutes as abuse.
In other words, so long as the means makes the person feel uncomfortable, then it is abuse. If this interpretation became mainstream, then, there would not be the problems of the D.A.'s needing to find the evidence of the moments, frequency of the abuse happening.
So, this gave the abusers a smaller window of opportunity to abuse these young children, because now, there's a stricter set of rule being implemented, hoping to, stop the abuse, to deter the perps from abuse before it actually happens. But chances are, this still won't work, because, we are all, used to, covering up the truths, especially when it comes to things like being abused by the spouses, or being the parent who didn't STOP the spouse from physically, sexually, verbally, OR emotionally abusing the child, because we're too afraid of getting "in the way", and getting assaulted ourselves.
