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witch hunt to find abused children. It’s more important to work on preventing child abuse and, if it occurs, to provide the child with help.”
At the start of her presentation, the Falls Church social worker outlined types of abuse:
• Physical abuse - where the child is repeatedly subjected to physical harm. As an example, she cited an account she’d heard on the radio on her drive to Rappahannock, a report of a father given three years in prison for gluing shut the eyes of his two-year-old child.
• Neglect - where the parent makes a choice to withhold food, clothing, medical attention or school attendance from the child. A differentiation must be made here between purposeful neglect and a situation in which a financially struggling family lacks money to care for a child, Mrs. Williams noted.
• Emotional abuse - where the child’s self-esteem is continually attacked by being belittled, told he never does anything right and told he’s not wanted. This is the most difficult form of abuse to detect or to prove, Mrs. Williams said. It is often this type of abuse that leads a child to anti-social behavior as a means of getting attention, she said.
• Sexual abuse - until recently, a taboo topic, Mrs. Williams noted,
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