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CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT

ions of the first reported instance of child abuse are relevant to the definitions of child abuse used today. It is important to note that abused animals were protected by laws before laws were enacted for protecting abused and neglected children.

The 1875 case of "Mary Ellen" is cited as the origin of concern with the problem. Mary Ellen was cruelly beaten and neglected by a couple with whom she had lived since infancy. Due to a lack of legal measures to protect her, concerned community leaders appealed to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Mary Ellen's case was taken to court as an "animal" because there were laws to protect animals, not humans, from abuse. Protection was granted to Mary Ellen and her guardians were sent to prison.

The organization of the New York County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1875 was the first major effort to ameliorate this problem.

Subsequently, similar societies were formed in San Francisco, Boston, Rochester, Baltimore, Buffalo, and Philadelphia. By 1900, 161 societies had been formed throughout the United States (Kadushin and Martin, 1981).

The duties and responsibilities of these voluntary, non-public agencies shifted to county departments of public welfare during the 1960s.

This shift also caused an orientation of such agencies from a legal, child rescue focus to family oriented social work rehabilitation (Kadushin and Martin, 1981).

The 1960s also generated a concern with child abuse among radiologists, psychiatrists, and pediatricians. These specialists called attention to X-ray markings of "multiple, healed injuries" suffered by children, which appeared to be the resu

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