Deck 5: Investigating Child Abuse

Question 1

Interviews from medical personnel are an important part of the fact-gathering process when medical care has been provided because:

A) Doctor or nurse may not remember the specific child days or weeks after providing services.
B) It helps determine the criminal act.
C) They know more about what happened to the victim than anyone else.
D) none of the above

Answer 1

Doctor or nurse may not remember the specific child days or weeks after providing services.

Question 2

Which of the following is a behavioral indicator of child sexual abuse?

A) Inappropriate sexual knowledge for his or her home environment and age
B) Acting out sexually with other children
C) Regression
D) all of the above

Answer 2

all of the above

Question 3

Criminal prosecution of physical abuse is more common than:

A) The prosecution of verbal abuse.
B) The prosecution of domestic abuse.
C) The prosecution for sexual abuse.
D) The prosecution of emotional maltreatment.

Answer 3

The prosecution of emotional maltreatment.

Question 4

Blue or purple bruises are indicative of an injury:

A) 10 days old.
B) One week old.
C) 2-5 days old.
D) 15 days old.

Question 5

The most common dangerous weapon is:

A) A belt.
B) The hand.
C) A bat.
D) A fly swatter.

Question 6

Shaken Baby Syndrome:

A) Is a new classification of death or injury to infants.
B) Is common in the United States more than any other country.
C) Is the medical term used to describe the violent shaking of a child and the injuries that can occur.
D) Both A and B

Question 7

A child will suffer a significant burn:

A) In the same amount of time as a teenager.
B) In the same amount of time as an adult.
C) In less time than adult.
D) In more time than an adult.

Question 8

Filicide is the killing of children:

A) By cousins.
B) By fathers.
C) By parents.
D) By siblings.

Question 9

Which of the following is a behavioral indicator of abuse?

A) Child fearful or unwilling to explain the cause of an injury
B) Walking with legs slightly splayed apart
C) Current physical injury accompanied by signs of multiple prior injuries
D) Scratching or rubbing the genitals

Question 10

Sexual abuse that is ongoing is frequently kept secret within the family. What factor can trigger disclosure?

A) A younger sibling being targeted for abuse
B) Offering incentives and rewards, or "bribes"
C) A family fight or punishment
D) Both A and B

Question 11

Which of the following is not a location typical of accidental injury?

A) Neck
B) Elbows
C) Knees
D) Forehead

Question 12

Bruises that are green are typically how many days old?

A) 5 to 7
B) 7 to 10
C) 2 to 5
D) 0 to 2

Question 13

Which professionals are the most common first responders to cases of child abuse and neglect?

A) Law enforcement officers
B) Emergency medical technicians
C) Child protective services
D) all of the above

Question 14

Which of the following is the first critical step of investigating child abuse and neglect cases?

A) Get records
B) Go to the source
C) Go to the scene
D) Conduct interview

Question 15

In Hague Convention access cases:

A) The left-behind parent seeks enforcement of visitation rights to his or her child.
B) The left-behind parent seeks retribution for crimes committed against his or her child.
C) The left-behind parent seeks return of his or her child to the child's country of habitual residence.
D) Both A and B

Question 16

This term is also referred to as "criminal abortion".

A) Miscarriage
B) Feticide
C) Infanticide
D) Filicide

Question 17

Which of the following is central to the CAC model of investigation?

A) The use of trained child forensic interviewers and videotaped interviews
B) The establishment of child advocacy centers
C) The use of multidisciplinary team investigations
D) all of the above

Question 18

There is usually a(n) ________ phase before the perpetrator initiates sexual contact. During this time, a relationship is being established between the victim and the offender. By the time the sexual conduct takes place, the child trusts the adult.

A) Suppression
B) Initiation
C) Engagement
D) Progression

Question 19

The role of the first responders to child maltreatment is to ________ and provide an initial response and investigation, and to testify in court, when appropriate.

A) leave the family alone
B) recognize child maltreatment
C) seize the child
D) all of the above

Question 20

The ________ (1993) makes it a federal offense for parents to abduct children from the United States and take them to another country (18 U.S.C. § 1204).

A) Hague
B) International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act
C) United States Department of State
D) all of the above

Question 21

The International Child Abduction Remedies Act (ICARA) enacted by Congress establishes the Hague Convention as the law of the United States concerning children less than ________ years old.

A) 7
B) 10
C) 5
D) 16

Question 22

Summit's characterization, referred to as ________, includes five phases common to the experiences of the child who has been sexually victimized.

A) Sexual trauma
B) Maltreatment
C) Suppression
D) the sexual abuse accommodation syndrome

Question 23

When a child is suspected of having been abused, that child is brought to the advocacy center and interviewed by a:

A) Counselor.
B) Police Officer.
C) Forensic interviewer.
D) all of the above

Question 24

Which of the following is central to the CAC model of investigation?

A) The use of trained child forensic interviewers and videotaped interviews
B) The use of multidisciplinary team investigations
C) The establishment of child advocacy centers
D) all of the above

Question 25

Research has shown that compared to other approaches, the ________ communities show significantly higher rates of coordinated investigations between law enforcement and child protective services.

A) Cognitive
B) CAC
C) Social service
D) Police

Question 26

Child Protective Services (CPS) can withdraw from a family investigation if the parents become uncooperative or resistant to taking help.

Question 27

Criminal prosecution of physical abuse is less common than the prosecution of emotional maltreatment.

Question 28

Gathering information on the nature, type, and location of injury is the first step toward a determination of physical abuse.

Question 29

Infants who are mobile are not capable of inflicting severe injury to their bodies.

Question 30

Common household items are frequently used as weapons against children in abusive situations.

Question 31

The EMTs and paramedics must determine the nature and extent of the patient's condition, give appropriate emergency care, and transport the patient to a medical facility, if necessary.

Question 32

A technical term for brittle bone disease is osteogenesis imperfecta.

Question 33

The role of CPS Case Workers is to determine if a violation of criminal law occurred, identify and apprehend the offender, file appropriate criminal charges, and remove.

Question 34

Shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is the medical term used to describe the violent shaking of a child and the injuries that can result.

Question 35

In interviews regarding the investigation of child abuse and neglect cases, caregivers are interviewed separately.

Question 36

The felonious destruction of a fetus is called ________, or criminal abortion. In a legal context, feticide refers to the deliberate or incidental killing of a fetus due to a criminal act, such as punching or kicking the abdomen of a pregnant woman.

Question 37

One example of an intentional injury is retinal hemorrhages, the hallmark of ________ syndrome, it is rarely associated with some other kind of injury.

Question 38

________ is the killing of children by parents; it is a nonlegal term that in some studies may include victims of infanticide.

Question 39

When a person exposes his or her genitalia to a child, it is known as ________.

Question 40

Family ________ is the taking, keeping, or concealing of a child or children by a parent, other family member, or person acting on behalf of the parent or family member that deprives another individual of his or her custody or visitation rights.

Question 41

The International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of ________ makes it a federal offense for a parent to abduct a child from the United States to another country. It also criminalizes keeping a child who is in the United States away from a person with parental rights custody.

Question 42

Research indicates that children ages ________ and younger are the most frequent victims of child fatalities.

Question 43

An individual diagnosed with ________ intentionally plans and conceals his or her abusive behaviors, which may include suffocating a child or demanding painful medical tests and procedures for the child.

Question 44

________ is not uncommon in cases of child incest. Changing the account of the abuse is problematic for criminal justice.

Question 45

________ syndrome includes five phases common to the experiences of the child who has been sexually victimized: secrecy; helplessness; entrapment and accommodation; delayed, conflicted, and unconvincing closure; and retraction.

Question 46

Select the correct term with the corresponding statement.

-The killing of a brother or sister

A) Fratricide
B) Shaken baby syndrome
C) Feticide
D) Filicide

Question 47

Select the correct term with the corresponding statement.

-The killing of children by parents

A) Fratricide
B) Shaken baby syndrome
C) Feticide
D) Filicide

Question 48

Select the correct term with the corresponding statement.

-The violent shaking of a child and theinjuries that can result

A) Fratricide
B) Shaken baby syndrome
C) Feticide
D) Filicide

Question 49

Select the correct term with the corresponding statement.

-The felonious destruction of a fetus

A) Fratricide
B) Shaken baby syndrome
C) Feticide
D) Filicide

Question 50

Discuss the significance of injury location on a child who may or may not have been physically abused.

Question 51

Explain why physical injuries to infants are suspicious of abuse.

Question 52

Define and discuss family abduction.

Question 53

What are the indicators of child sexual abuse?

Question 54

Define and describe Sexual Abuse Accommodation Syndrome.

Question 55

Out of the four critical steps of investigating child abuse and neglect cases, which do you think is the most prone to being mishandled? How so?

Question 56

Create a scenario demonstrating medical neglect.