Abuse and Neglect
How Many Children Get Abused In Kansas and Missouri?
By Scott Wasserman
Apr 18, 2007, 10:28

• Five children die nationally every day from abuse and neglect, according to the U.S. Advisory Board on Abuse and Neglect.
  
  
• Seventy-eight children in Missouri were victims of fatal abuse or neglect in 2005.
  
  
• Nine children in Kansas City were victims of homicide in 2006.
  
  
• In Kansas, 8,465 incidents of child abuse and neglect were reported in fiscal year 2006.
  
  
• 608 children were substantiated as victims of abuse and neglect in Wyandotte County and Johnson County, Kansas in 2006.

Source: Debby Howland, chair of the KC Child Abuse Prevention Month Planning Committee, quoted this morning in the Kansas City Star.