1.   Abusing a child is a despicable act.

2.   Child-rearing is considered a private matter, and there is no intervention unless a child is abused or neglected.

3.   How do social workers go about investigating these complaints, and what leads them towards Deciding that a child has been abused?

4.   How it got to this point is there was an investigation of a staff member abusing a child.

5.   Staff at the hostel were accused of neglecting and abusing children in their care.

6.   The children were abused as part of a satanic ritual.

7.   The prosecutor still maintained White abused the children.

8.   They believed their children were being abused by the system set up to protect them.

9.   We would not wish to outlaw parenthood on the grounds that some children are abused, even murdered, in the home.