The United States has the highest child abuse record in the industrialized world. The statistics behind an ''epidemic'' of child deaths state every five hours a child dies from abuse or neglect in the U.S., the BBC investigation reveals.
Every week, 66 children under 15 die from physical abuse or neglect in the developed world, 27 of them in the U.S. However, the statistics with both regard to the numbers and ways of abuse varies from state to state.
The BBC’s journalist Natalia Antelava reports while the Dallas Children's Medical Center deals with a rising number of abused children and increasing levels of violence, the Houston Center is expanding its services to deal with the rising problem of child sex abuse.
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