5.5 Child Abuse

The child's victimisation's medical faces: the physical abuse (the injuries' pattern-recognition: the multiple-healing injuries — the different ages (the timeline's horror); the patterned bruises (the implements); the shaken-baby (the U3.3 head injuries); the fractures (the rib-and-long-bone patterns)); the sexual abuse (the examination's protocol; the STDs' evidence; the behavioural signs); the neglect (the malnutrition, the hygiene, the medical-denial); the reporting's duty (the mandatory-reporting debates; the child-protection machinery — the Children's Act 2075's faces (the LAW5407 companion)).