A few years ago we were at some sort of board meeting. For some reason abuse was brought up and information on that was passed out.
Another board member who's daughter was also 5 or 6 at the time... turned very pale and was extremely upset.
She had never seen the abuse statistics for children with disabilities before. She was totally freaked out for weeks.
When I am told that the crappy education isn't a good enough reason to home school my kids? I send out these statistics.
Here are the ones most likely to apply to Jori... his disabilities and the boys statistics.
http://www.domesticviolenceservices.com/disability-children.html
Sullivan and Knutson identified 4,503 maltreated children, 1,012 of whom also had an identified disability. The overall rate of maltreatment for children without disabilities was 11%.
For children with disabilities, the overall rate was 31%.
They found that children with disabilities were
3.4 times more likely to be neglected, and physically, emotionally, or sexually abused compared with children who do not have disabilities.
Children with
speech and language difficulties have
five times the risk for neglect and physical abuse, three times the risk for sexual abuse.
Children who are
cognitively disabled have
four times the risk for all four types of maltreatment.
Children with
learning or orthopedic disabilities have
twice the risk for all types of maltreatment.
The children at highest risk were those with behavioral disorders. Their risk is seven times higher for neglect, physical abuse and emotional abuse, and 5.5 times higher for sexual abuse than are children without disabilities.
http://www.safe.eku.edu/survivors/disabilities/
15.2% of children who are sexually abused have disabilities.
Males with disabilities are twice as likely as males without disabilities to be sexually abused in their lifetime.
Among developmentally disabled adults, as many as 83% of the females and
32% of the males are the victims of sexual assault.
Only 3% of sexual abuse cases involving people with developmental disabilities are ever reported.
88 to 98% of sexual abusers are male and are known by the victim/survivor who has disabilities.
33% of abusers are acquaintances,
33% are natural or foster family members, and
25% are caregivers or service providers.
