Child Abuse Essay

Beaten. Bruised. Broken. Everyday a child suffers from these, physically, verbally and sexually. You might be wondering how anyone could have a heart so weak and bitter to do perform these tasks on an innocent child. Everyday a child gets abused either physically, verbally or sexually by their so called caring parents who are supposed to love them and keep them in a safe and secure environment ironically in their home. Physical abuse is when you use actions instead of communicating verbally and if serious enough can result in death. A child can be hit, kicked or even punched which leaves bruises or broken bones! Do you want to hear the slap of a hand hitting a weak and frail little angel’s skin or the thud of a shoe smashing tiny bones? A child does not have the physical strength to over power their abusers, if they try to fight back they will suffer serious consequences! Sometimes a child can be used as a human ashtray, such a worthless item! Is a child as worthless as an ashtray? Abusers try to cover up the marks they have left on their victims usually by covering them with layers of clothes and threatening them if they tell anyone they will be in for a serious beaten. An example of abusers trying to cover their victims marks up is, the incident that happened with which used to be a bubbly blue eyed little boy Baby P who was abused for 17 months without anyone having the slightest concern that anything like this was happening behind closed doors. When visitors came his mother out chocolate over his face so they wouldn’t see the bruises which had been left from the beatings he got from her. Baby P could do nothing to stop this saying he was so young. Anyone old enough to tell anyone is too afraid to open their mouths to anyone about what is going on because they knew that if it got back to their abusers they would suffer serious consequences. Verbal abuse is as serious as physical abuse even if you don’t use actions