IMO, if we really knew the depth and breadth of child abuse in this world, we wouldn't be able to bear it. The Turpin case is horrifying, but child abuse happens all the time, everywhere, and the cases made nationally/internationally public are are just a single grain of sand.
Most people don't want to know the amount of child abuse and neglect in this world. It's not like the stats are hidden, especially US statistics.
The United States has one of the worst records among industrialized nations – losing on average between four and seven children every day to child abuse and neglect.
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January 2017: The report shows an increase in child abuse referrals from 3.6 million to 4 million. The number of children involved subsequently increased to
7.2 million from 6.6 million. The report also indicates an increase in
child deaths from abuse and neglect to
1,670 in 2015, up from 1,580 in 2014.1 Some reports estimate child abuse fatalities at 1,740 or even higher."
7.2 million cases of abuse and neglect - there are
682,000 social workers in US. This number seems more than adequate when you consider there are only
421,000 police officers in the US, a population of 350 million.
- 80% of child fatalities involve at least one parent.1
- 74.8% of child fatalities are under the age of 3.1
- 72.9% of the child abuse victims die from neglect.1
- 43.9% of the child abuse victims die from physical abuse.1
- 49.4% of children who die from child abuse are under one year.1
- Almost 60,000 children are sexually abused"
As a result, the statistics for drug abuse, suicides, criminal activity, and subsequent abuse perpetrated by the victim's on their children are equally as alarming.
In 2016, approx 40 unarmed black and white men were killed by police - (this is not a commentary, but a comparison), and approx 1,500 innocent, helpless children were murdered or neglected to death by someone that was supposed to protect them. Why so much national attention and outrage for one tragedy and not the other?
IMO, it is because there's no money or political gain to be made from abused children (unless, of course, you are an incumbent DA with a high profile case and an election coming up), children can't sue their parents for civil rights violations - their plight has never been a cause endorsed by a US President, ever.
We go on about opiate addiction, overcrowded prisons, crime, shootings, etc., but God forbid we talk about the root cause of the vast majority of these issues - generational bad parenting.