Child Abuse Leading to Blindness and deafness ( A Case Study)

Abstract

Introduction: Child abuse is one of the major problems of today’s societies ;so in developed countries supportive laws for children have been established. Obvious manifestations of physical child abuse include: skin lesions (echymosis, erosion, biting), skull fractures and injury to the visceral organs. Physicians should take child abuse in their consideration whenever they encounter skin manifestations and skull fracture in an infant. In some societies the child abuse frequency is about 6 in 1000 infants which increases by aging.