About one of every 43 American infants is physically abused or neglected annually, and those babies are especially at risk in the first week of their lives.
Other new government figures showed that 499 babies up to age 1 were killed in maltreatment cases. About a third of the maltreated infants, 29,881, were abused or neglected before they were a week old, mostly in their first four days. Many of those cases may be linked to maternal drug use.
Physical abuse included beating, kicking, biting, burning and shaking; neglect included abandonment, maternal drug use or failing to meet basic needs like housing, food and clothing, according to the report.
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