Maltreatment Definition

Maltreatment Sentence Examples

• The maltreatment of the Poncas, a fine and peaceable tribe, was peculiarly and inexcusably harsh.

• The data show that child protective service agencies received about 2,600,000 reports of possible maltreatment in 2002.

• The two prerequisites for this form of maltreatment are sexual arousal towards children and the willingness to act on this arousal.

• Bensley, Lillian, et al. "Community Responses and Perceived Barriers to Responding to Child Maltreatment."

• Textual criticism is called upon to repair the mischief done to inscriptions (texts inscribed upon stones) by weathering, maltreatment or the errors of the stone-cutter.