What is Child Abuse in PA? Neglect
What is Child Abuse in PA?
Neglect –
Causing serious physical neglect of a child.
Serious physical neglect includes any of the following when it endangers a child’s life or health, threatens a child’s well-being, causes bodily injury or impairs a child’s health, development or functioning:
(1) A repeated, prolonged or egregious failure to supervise a child in a manner that is appropriate considering the child’s developmental age and abilities.
(2) The failure to provide a child with adequate essentials of life, including food, shelter or medical care.
Other types of abuse…
- Bodily injury
- Sexual Abuse or Exploitation
- Serious Mental Injury
- Per Se (e.g., actions that endanger a child but might not lead to a physical injury)
- Harmful exaggeration or misrepresentation of a child’s medical condition
- Causing the death of the child
