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Types of Child Maltreatment

What is identified as child maltreatment in Wisconsin?

Facts:

Every year, between 4,000 and 5,000 children are substantiated as abused or neglected in Wisconsin.

Annual statistics on child maltreatment in Wisconsin.

Fact sheets updated annually for every county.

There are six basic types of maltreatment recognized in Wisconsin’s laws:

  1. Physical abuse
  2. Physical neglect
  3. Sexual abuse
  4. Emotional abuse
  5. Methamphetamine manufacture
  6. Threatened abuse or neglect

In the following pages, you will learn the defintions and how to recognize each.
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