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% of all reports to the Florida Abuse Hotline are from reporters who are required to provide their name. - answer-55 % of those are sent off to the local county to be investigated by a Child Protective Investigator (CPI). - answer-80 • Conveying messages that a child is worthless, unwanted, or unloved • Terrorizing a child • Witnessing domestic violence • Demeaning, ridiculing, or belittling a child • Not allowing the child to have friends • Name calling • Not letting a child eat, drink, or use the bathroom - answer-example of emotional abuse • Scalding a child with hot water • Slapping, hitting, shaking, or shoving a child • Beating with a belt, shoe, or other object • Pulling a child's hair • Burning a child with a lighter, matches, cigarettes, iron, or other hot object • Breaking a child's bones • Restraint or imprisonment • Painful punishments, such as kneeling or standing for long periods of time - answer-examples of physical abuse • Using a child in pornography • Having intercourse or oral sex with a child • Fondling a child's genitals • Having sex in front of a child • Having a child touch another person's genitals • Showing x-rated material to a child - answer-example of sexual abuse 3 types of abuse - cal l onal A form of emotional abuse that involves excessive yelling, shaming, belittling and/or teasing of a child. - answer-verbal abuse a specific type of physical abuse. It is caused by someone shaking an infant and causing injury or death. Shaking an infant can cause severe injury because they have weak neck muscles, growing brains, and thin skulls. - answer-shaken baby syndrome Abuse and neglect are seen among people of all ages, genders, ethnic groups, family structures, races, socioeconomic statuses, and sexual orientations. - answer-fact All child sexual abuse is physical. - answer-myth an outcome of emotional abuse or emotional neglect. A lack of holding, hugging, rocking, singing, touching, and loving that occurs during infancy and early childhood can cause an infant's or child's weight to drop to below the fifth percentile. - answer-failure to thrive Any person under the age of 18 years. - answer-child 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. - answer-child abuse Anything to a child's health or welfare that can occur when any person: a) inflicts, or allows to be inflicted, upon the child physical, mental, or emotional injury; b) commits, or allows to be committed, sexual battery, or lewd or lascivious acts against a child; c) allows, encourages, or forces the sexual exploitation of a child; d) exploits a child, or allows a child to be exploited; e) abandons the child; f) neglects the child; g) exposes a child to a controlled substance or alcohol; h) uses mechanical devices, unreasonable restraints, or extended periods of isolation to control a child; i) engages in violent behavior that demonstrates a wanton disregard for the presence of a child and could reasonably result in serious injury to the child: j) negligently fails to protect a child in his or her care from inflicted physical, cognitive, or sexual injury caused by the acts of another; k) has allowed a chil - answer-harm As a Floridian and a child care provider - answer-it is your duty and your legal responsibility according to Chapter 39 of the Florida Statutes to report any suspected case of child abuse or neglect. You don't have to prove anything. That is the investigator's job. Attachment behaviors toward caretakers Sleep disturbances, particularly nightmares Immobility Does not explore Regression in behavior Failure to Thrive Thumb sucking, whining, and loss of acquired speech Prolonged uncontrollable crying Hyper-vigilance Biting, kicking, tantrums, unprovoked aggression - answer-Indicators of trauma in children ages birth to 5 Behavioral Indicator of Physical Abuse - answer-easily startled Behavioral Indicator of Physical Neglect - answer-begs/steals food Behavioral Indicator of Sexual Abuse - answer-sophisticated sexual knowledge Behavioral Indicators of Emotional Abuse or Neglect - answer-Habit Disorders, Such as Biting or Rocking behavioral signs - answer-Have nightmares Flinch when a hand or object comes close Sound depressed Hurt themselves on purpose Bully others Child molesters get their sexual gratification only from children. - answer-False, many child molesters also have sexual relationships with adults. Child Protective Services (CPS) - answer-he designated social service agency (in most comm