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