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Rhode Island Definitions of Child Abuse and Neglect | Child Abuse Stories
Rhode Island Definitions of Child Abuse and Neglect
Submitted by admin on Fri, 11/11/2011 - 11:14am
Physical Abuse - Citation: Gen. Laws § 40-11-2
'Abused and/or neglected child' means a child whose physical or mental health or welfare is harmed or threatened with harm when his or her parent or other person responsible for his or her welfare:
Inflicts or allows to be inflicted upon the child physical or mental injury, including excessive corporal punishment
Creates or allows to be created a substantial risk of physical or mental injury to the child, including excessive corporal punishment
'Shaken baby syndrome' means a form of abusive head trauma characterized by a constellation of symptoms caused by other than accidental traumatic injury resulting from the violent shaking and/or impact upon an infant or young child's head.
Neglect - Citation: Gen. Laws § 40-11-2
The term 'abused and/or neglected child' includes a child whose physical or mental health or welfare is harmed or threatened with harm when the child's parent or other person responsible for his or her welfare:
Fails to supply the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical care, although financially able to do so or offered financial or other reasonable means to do so
Fails to provide the child with a minimum degree of care or proper supervision or guardianship because of his or her unwillingness or inability to do so by situations or conditions such as, but not limited to, social problems, mental incompetency, or the use of a drug, drugs, or alcohol to the extent that the parent or other person responsible for the child's welfare loses his or her ability or is unwilling to properly care for the child
Sexual Abuse/Exploitation - Citation: Gen. Laws § 40-11-2
The term 'abused and/or neglected child' includes a child whose physical or mental health or welfare is harmed or threatened with harm when his or her parent or other person responsible for his or her welfare:
Emotional Abuse - Citation: Gen. Laws § 40-11-2
'Mental injury' includes a state of substantially diminished psychological or intellectual functioning related to, but not limited to, such factors as failure to thrive, ability to think or reason, control of aggressive or self-destructive impulses, acting-out or misbehavior, that include incorrigibility, ungovernability, or habitual truancy. The injury must be clearly attributable to the unwillingness or inability of the parent or other person responsible for the child's welfare to exercise a minimum degree of care toward the child.
Abandonment - Citation: Gen. Laws § 40-11-2
The term 'abused and/or neglected child' includes a child whose physical or mental health or welfare is harmed or threatened with harm when his or her parent or other person responsible for his or her welfare abandons or deserts the child.
Standards for Reporting - Citation: Gen. Laws § 40-11-3
A report is required when there is reasonable cause to know or suspect that a child has been abused or neglected.
Persons Responsible for the Child - Citation: Gen. Laws § 40-11-2
'Person responsible for child's welfare' means:
Any individual, age 18 age or older, who resides in the home of a parent or guardian and has unsupervised access to a child
An employee of a public or private residential home or facility
Any staff person providing out-of-home care