Assessment Speech Rough Draft

Good morning fellow classmates, and Mr Cav.

I am here today to talk to you about something that not everyone here will be aware of, or don't know much about. I am here to talk to you about our society underestimating the effects of child abuse. A report of child abuse is made every ten seconds, but how many people here today know how many people die each year, from suffering child abuse? Well your answer, is too many. Too many people die each year from child abuse, more than one is even too many for me.

There are four different types of child abuse, which include; Physical, Sexual, Emotional and Neglect. All four types of abuse are just as bad as each other. Physical abuse, is aggression directed at a child by an adult through pysical acts. Sexual abuse is when an adult or older adolescent abuses a child for sexual stimulation. Emotion abuse, is abuse which gets inside the childs brain, it mentally hurts and weakens the child, there are many forms of this which include name-calling, ridicule, degradation, destruction of personal belongings, torture or destruction of a pet, excessive critisism, inappropriate or excessive demands, withholding communication, and routine labeling or humiliation. The last of these is Neglect, neglect is when the parent does not provide the child with their needs such as food, water, clothing, or hygiene.

Studies have shown that most victims of child abuse develop other physical problems later in their life. 80% of victims suffer from anxiety, depression or they act out. Children who are physically abused are likely to receive bone fractures, particularly rib fractures, and may have a higher risk of developing cancer. Children who experience child abuse & neglect are 59% more likely to be arrested as juveniles, 28% more likely to be arrested as adults, and 30% more likely to commit violent crime. 


Here are some statistics about child abuse for you: 90% of sexual child abuse victims know the perpetrator in some way; 68% are abused by family members. 31% percent of women in the Australian prison were abused as children. Over 60% of people in drug rehabilitation centers report being abused or neglected as a child.


Now, how many people here knew about any of that? How many people here knew that all of that was going on in the world? How many people here knew the effects of child abuse? My point exactly, I think that we can all come together and make people more aware of these effects, commercialize it, make this something known, anything we can to stop child abuse. 


30 reports have been made during this speech about child abuse
Thank You.