Essay On Child Maltreatment

Children often learn by observing others and normally while growing up, they all have someone that they look up to. They are normally seen to be innocent at a young age when they do not know any better. But there are many of cases in which children do not have the luxury of being with people that love them and treat them right. In most cases, children get abused and neglected by their parents and/or guardians, urging for Child protective services to step in and save the child. Child maltreatment includes child abuse and child neglect and is a major problem in the United States. The National Bureau of Economic Research states that “Over a million children are victims of maltreatment annually” (Currie & Tekin 2006). Child maltreatment could lead a child down a path of delinquency and more should be done to stop this from happening, and providing better opportunities for children that

Meechaiel Criner, 17, has been accused of killing Haruka Weiser, she was a freshman at the University of Texas. In most of the articles that I came across regarding this story, they all deemed Criner to be a “Troubled Teen”. The reason for this is that he bounced around different homes, causing instability in his life. At the moment, Criner was living in a foster care center, but was able to escape. He was taken from his mother as a baby and granted to his grandmother at about the age of three when they granted his grandmother full custody. He was later taken from his grandmother and given to his aunt because his grandmother hit him across his face with a belt (Bien, 2016). Unfortunately, his aunt passed away last year and he was moved into a therapeutic foster home in Texas and they mention that he also had a mental illness. The police was alerted when they found that he had escaped and about 10 days later he supposedly attacked a random freshman on the University of Texas campus and ultimately ended up killing her. (Ball, Plohetski & Schwartz,