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This Child Fatality information provided by the Injury & Violence Prevention section of the Office of Disease Prevention & Epidemiology.
- Special Topics 8. Investigations and Judicial Outcomes Death scene investigations were conducted in 91% (169/185) of the child death cases reviewed by the teams. A perpetrator was identified in 17% (29/169) of the investigated cases. Seventy-three percent (21) of the victims knew the perpetrators of the crimes against them. Figure 11 illustrates the relationship between the perpetrator and victim. Eighty-three percent of the perpetrators were male. One case with an identified perpetrator was a murder/suicide case; arrests were made in 24 cases. Grand juries returned indictments on 68 separate counts of crimes in 20 of 24 cases in which an arrest was made. Convictions were found by juries on 42 counts in 85% (17/20) of the cases where grand juries had indicted perpetrators for crimes. Trial outcomes are pending in the remaining cases. The criminal cases fell into three categories: motor vehicular crimes (14 cases); child homicide (11 cases); and firearm homicide (2 cases). Eight of these cases were alcohol or drug related. Nine of these cases were determined to be caused by abuse and four were determined to be related to neglect. Table 5a : Motor Vehicle and Table 5b: Child Homicide & Unintentional Firearm Fatality contain information on the indictment, conviction and sentence for each case against a perpetrator or an alleged perpetrator in which crimes against children caused or contributed to one or more fatalities. |
