{"id":55345,"date":"2014-03-24T09:42:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T13:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/reported-child-abuse-cases-rise-18-percent"},"modified":"2014-03-24T09:42:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T13:42:46","slug":"reported-child-abuse-cases-rise-18-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/03\/reported-child-abuse-cases-rise-18-percent","title":{"rendered":"Reported Child Abuse Cases Rise 18 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-15488\" alt=\"stop child abuse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/stop-child-abuse-250x250.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/>Reports of child abuse grew by about 18 percent last year compared to 2012, according to statistics released by the Department of Social Services yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, there were 490 reported cases of child abuse, compared to 417 cases in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, there were 113 cases of physical abuse; 95 cases of sexual abuse; five cases of verbal abuse; nine cases of emotional abuse; six cases of incest; 257 cases of neglect and five cases of abandonment.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, there were 100 cases of physical abuse; 92 cases of sexual abuse; seven cases of verbal abuse; two cases of emotional abuse; six cases of incest; 202 cases of neglect and eight cases of abandonment.<\/p>\n<p>The statistics were released during a press conference at Government House to announce plans for Child Protection Month in April.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenassauguardian.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=46044:reported-child-abuse-cases-rise-18-percent-&amp;catid=3:news&amp;Itemid=27\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the complete article at www.thenassauguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports of child abuse grew by about 18 percent last year compared to 2012, according to statistics released by the Department of Social Services yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":15488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[292,31,163,51],"class_list":["post-55345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-child-abuse","tag-crime","tag-society","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}