FACTSHEET:
Child Victims and the Law
The law has traditionally treated children differently than other victims. State criminal codes define many crimes against children separately from the same offenses committed against adults.
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Newsletter: January 2004: Just the FactsSignificant differences in the experience of abuse were found between HIV-positive women and HIV-negative women living in poor urban communities. HIV-positive women were more likely to report having experienced both physical and sexual abuse (15%) as children than were HIV-negative women (9%).References: McDonnell, K., Gielen, A. and O'Campo, P. (2003). Does HIV status make a difference in the experience of lifetime abuse? Descriptions of lifetime abuse and its context among low-income urban women. Journal of Urban Health, 80(3), 494-509. ← previous article | next article → |
Voices and Faces:
Nobuko Nagaoka 
"I guess the thing that I am proudest of is that I didn't turn back, that I'm still here all these years later. I kept going because I had no choice, but I'm glad that I did."
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SAAM Committee member Melanie Flamm
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