Need an Attorney for Child Abuse?
Looking for an attorney for child abuse, neglect, sex abuse or endangering the welfare of a child? If you or a family member has been arrested and charged with child abuse or sexual abuse, find an experienced criminal lawyer experienced defending similar cases.
An experienced defense attorney will:
- Do a careful, intensive investigation looking into false or malicious allegations
- Plan an aggressive and proactive defense strategy
Attorney for Child Abuse — What Stage in the Case?
The lawyer will most likely need to know:
Have charges been filed?
Has the client made statements?
Has the victim been examined by a physician?
How old is the child?
How Are Child Abuse and Neglect Defined by Law?
Child is:
A person under the age of 18 yrs old.
Child abuse and neglect is:
Any act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caretaker which causes death, serious physical or emotional injury, sexual abuse or exploitation.Also means an act or failure to act which can put the child at risk of being seriously injured.
Sexual abuse is:
Making, using, persuading, forcing, enticing of any child to engage in, or assist any other person to engage in, any sexually explicit conduct or simulation of sexual behavior/conduct.This includes rape, statutory rape, molestation, prostitution, or other forms of sexual exploitation of children, or incest with children.
Each State is responsible for providing its own definitions of child abuse and neglect within the civil and criminal context.
Definitions propose four main types of child abuse (physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and child neglect), but rarely if ever does one form of abuse occur alone. The idea in itself is absurd. Physical abuse and sexual abuse never occur in the absence of emotional abuse. Children who are sexually abused often suffer physical injuries. When one form of abuse does exist in absence of others, it is likely to be emotional abuse.
Abuse is divided into four categories for policy, research and treatment purposes – the different types of abuse have different effects, different types of perpetrators and different types of interventions. Sexual abusers are mostly males. Men and women inflict physical and emotional abuse, and women make up most of the cases of neglect. (Of course, most of the women prosecuted for neglect are single mothers – the men who abandoned their families and their responsibilities are almost never prosecuted for neglect.
Sex Crimes Class B Violent Felonies in New York
Course of sexual conduct against a child in the first degree aggravated sexual abuse in the first degree rape in the first degree sodomy in the first degree
Sex Crimes Class C Violent Felonies in New York
Aggravated sexual abuse in the second degree
Sex Crimes Class C Non-Violent Felonies in New York
Use of a child in a sexual performance
Sex Crimes Class D Violent Felonies in New York
Aggravated sexual abuse in the third degree course of sexual conduct against a child in the second degree sexual abuse in the first degree
Sex Crimes Class D Non-Violent Felonies in New York
Promoting a sexual performance by a child promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child rape in the second degree sodomy in the second degree
Sex Crimes Class E Felonies in New York
Disseminating indecent material to minors in the second degree female genital mutilation possessing a sexual performance by a child possessing a obscene sexual performance by a child rape in the third degree reckless assault of a child by a child day care provider sodomy in the third degree substitution of children
Sex Crimes Class A Misdemeanors in New York
Assault in the third degree sexual abuse in the third degree sexual misconduct unlawfully dealing with a child in the first degree
Sex Crimes Class B Misdemeanors in New York
Consensual sodomy sexual abuse in the third degree
If you or a family member has been arrested and charged with child abuse or sexual abuse, find a lawyer that has experience defending similar cases.
