Child Abuse and Neglect (CAAN) questions and answer

Child Abuse and Neglect (CAAN) questions and answers Child any person under the age of 18 child abuse any willful act or threatened act that results in any physical, mental, or sexual abuse, injury, or harm that causes or is likely to cause the child's physical, mental, or emotional health to be significantly impaired physical abuse the mistreatment of a child by a person responsible for the child's welfare that results in injury or harm to the child sexual abuse sexual contact or interaction between a child and an adult or older child. Includes indecent exposure, fondling, touching sexual organs, forcible rape, sodomy, exploitation, and showing pornography verbal abuse a form of emotional abuse that involves excessive yelling, shaming, belittling and/or teasing of a child institutional abuse or neglect situations of known or suspected child abuse or neglect that occur at a private school, public or private child care center, residential home, institution, facility, or agency where the alleged perpetrator is an employe