Child Abuse Statistics

2005 National and New York State Child Abuse Statistics 2005 Child Abuse and Neglect Fact Sheet (PDF)
Reports and number of children In 2005, 64,207 New York State children were abused or neglected, approximately 14 of every 1,000 children in the state. The NYS Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment (the Child Abuse Reporting Hotline) received 139,169 reports of suspected child abuse or neglect, involving 185,819 children. Upon investigation, 42,169 (31 percent) were substantiated as situations of child abuse and neglect. (There are more child victims than reports, because more than one child is involved in some cases.) Compared to the prior year, the number of reports decreased by 1.1; the number of substantiated cases decreased by 1.2 percent; the number of child victims decresed 16 percent.

In New York State in 2005, 75 children are known to have died as a result of child abuse and neglect, a fatality rate of 1.65 per 100,000 children.
Nationwide in 2005, 1,460 children died of abuse or neglect in the 50 states that reported information; that is, almost 2 children for every 100,000 in the population. Children younger than one year old accounted for 31.8 percent of fatalities and 76.6 percent of fatalities were younger than four years old