The youngest children were most vulnerable to maltreatment. Children in the first year of their life had the highest rate of victimization of 24.2 per 1,000 children in the national population of the
There were 4.1 million reports of child maltreatment in the United States involving more than 7.5 million children. Approximately 674,000 children were victims of maltreatment. Of these: 74.9 percent