However, mean AADS score was significantly higher among girls who had been physically abused (53.8 vs. 45.5; p = 0.001), emotionally abused (51.4 vs. 45.2; p = 0.002), and emotionally neglected (56.6 vs. 46.0; p = 0.021).
In a study of 90 ex-forces' personnel on probation or parole, it also found one-in-three suffered from chronic alcohol abuse while one-in 10 abused illegal drugs.
It was not the biggest, however; in June, 54 abused dogs were found in a Medford home.
The state's agency for children said it had lost track of 302 abused and neglected children -- 189 of them from the county that includes Detroit.
In 1999, by the city's count, 57 abused and neglected children died, 23 from families previously identified in reports of suspected maltreatment to the city agency.
David Greenwood, of Jordans Solicitors in West Yorkshire, has dealt with all the Medomsley victims' cases, representing 26 abused boys so far.
This intolerable toll looms darkly in a federal study that counted 896,000 abused and neglected foster children in the same year.
He has been studying case histories of some of the estimated 10,000 abused youngsters — "our Friday penance," he called his weekly tutorial.
She also helped defend women charged in connection with the death of a child, interviewed about 500 abused women and made countless prison visits.
His official biography notes his sponsorship of facilities like Casa Hogar, an orphanage in Matamoros, Mexico, that houses more than 100 abused, abandoned or neglected children.
