“You can't hear me when I say.” “Mom, please wake up.” According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as many as 3.4 million referrals were obtained from U.S. state and local child protective services in 2012. These referrals involved child abuse and neglect, many of the victims were under the age of three. time of reporting. To put this into visual perspective, the number of reported cases of child abuse is enough to fill ten modern football stadiums. It is also estimated that one in ten cases will actually be proven and justice will be sought for the victim. The National Criminal Justice Reference Service stated that “child victims are extremely vulnerable and often completely defenseless and are often harmed by their own