Scope of the Child Abuse Issue in the United States:

Children are suffering from a hidden epidemic of child abuse and neglect. It’s a widespread war against our children that we have the power to stop, and understanding the issue is the first step. Just how bad is the issue of child abuse in the United States?

Every year more than 3 million reports of child abuse are made in the United States involving more than 6 million children (a report can include multiple children). The United States has one of the worst records among industrialized nations – losing on average between four and seven children every day to child abuse and neglect.

-A report of a child abuse is made every ten seconds. Yearly, referrals to state child protective services involve 6.3 million children, and around 3 million of those children are subject to an investigated report. In 2012, state agencies found an estimated 686,000 victims of child maltreatment, but that only tells part of the story.

Familiar organize abuse has been documented since sex rings and children pornography first began to be investigated in the 1970s and 1980s.
 
Organize abuse, like all forms of child sexual abuse, occurs most often in the spaces of childhood that are designated in liberal democracies as private spaces such as the home, or in sites such as schools and residential institutions that are neither wholly private nor fully public.

Organize abuse is a secretive enterprise that is rarely the subject of specialist focus of investigation. When is detected by the authorities, most cases are detected accidentally or due to the perseverance of victims in spite of the inaction and inattention of authorities. 

Three contexts in which organize abuse has been repeatedly identified:

                                                        1. In extra familiar networks of offenders
                                           2. In children’s institution, school, church, collage and Universities
                                                          3. In nuclear and extended families

Consequences of Child Organize Sexual Abuse:

Early and repetitive child abuse, in which children are repeatedly subject to levels of violence that are likely to have serious and life-long impacts on physical and mental health. The victims are robbed of their identity and of the ability to maintain authentic feelings.

Brainwashing and coercive control with repetitive and deliberate abuse is a characteristic of organized abuse. The dependency and powerlessness of children is turned against them.

Normal families, not dependent on government assistance can go unnoticed for many years if at all organized sexual abuse. The children of these families are afforded few opportunities to disclose their abuse or to seek external intervention. The frequency of brain injury, development delays and mental illness amongst victims of familial organize abuse suggest that many victims of such abuse are unlikely to ever disclose and others are silenced through suicide.

We must learn to recognize early signs of abuse in order to help save the 5 children that die every day from child abuse and neglect. However the capacity of victims to report organized abuse is constrained by different circumstances as dependence with the perpetrators, threats of death or harm during the abuses, and also specific commonly used strategies by the perpetrators as drugging the children or forcing them to have sexual contact with other children to engender a sense of guilt and complicity inside the abusive group. In 2012, state agencies identified an estimated 1,640 children who died as a result of abuse and neglect — between four and five children a day. However, studies also indicate significant undercounting of child maltreatment fatalities by state agencies — by 50% or more. That's roughly ¼ of your child's elementary school class. More than 70% of the children who died as a result of child abuse or neglect were two years of age or younger. More than 80% were not yet old enough for kindergarten. Around 80% of child maltreatment fatalities involve at least one parent as perpetrator

The long-term financial impact of abuse and neglect is staggering. For new cases in 2008 alone, lifetime estimates of lost worker productivity, health care costs, special education costs, child welfare expenditures and criminal justice expenditures added up to $124 billion.

Objectives Of Project Protect:
Local sexual assault services, psychologists, therapist, health and welfare services, nonprofit organizations can help in offering therapy to victims of organize abuse but they are poorly situated to respond to the primaries victim need which is SAFETY from the ongoing abuse.

These agencies often have limited capacity to marshal an appropriate response, and the needs of victims and survivors typically go unmet. As a cover and secretive form of sexual violence, organized abuse often evades detection and identification.

While law enforcements officers are concerned with trafficking and the sexual assaults of minors, they shouldn´t be the only ones fighting this issue.People who work with youth need to be concerned about any impact the sex trade is having on our future generations. Project Protect wants to focus on helping the victim in its most needed response which is SAFETY against its abusers. The first objective is focus in the investigation and prosecution of the organized abuse perpetrators. Our primary goal is helping the victim saving all the possible future ones.