Child and Adult Abuse in the United States - Essay Example

During the court proceedings, the judge slapped a lash against one of the benches in the courtroom to explain the way Piskorski used to abuse the little child, as per his understanding of the matter. Dr. Susan Omura, who was appointed as the child’s emergency physician during the court proceedings, treated the child. After examining the body of the little child completely, Dr. Susan Omura identified numerous marks of injuries. According to her, it was “one of the most severe cases of child abuse she’s ever seen” (KPTV, 2010). Sue Robinson, one of the child’s family members, said she could not recognize him when she first saw the boy lying on a bed in the hospital because of excessive swelling all over his body.

When investigated, Scheurman told that she was so badly in love with Piskorski that she overlooked the abuse he would offer to her son. Because of her careless attitude, inconsideration and neglect, Scheurman was sentenced to jail for 180 days. In addition to that, she was offered 3 years of probation and was required to undergo a thorough psychological treatment. Bill Robinson, the lawyer said, “As much time as he possibly can get. My personal opinion is he should never walk the streets again, but that's not possible” (KPTV, 2010). As per the estimation of prosecutors, Piskorski was likely to be jailed for no less than 7 to 8 years.

            The physical abuse Piskorski offered the little child broke his family. His mother went to jail. He was left to suffer from psychological stress and trauma for the life ahead. Physically abused children may recover injuries and scars on their bodies, but the marks on their minds never fade away.

Adult abuse case study:

Helen was a girl in her mid-20s when the incident happened. She suffers from extreme learning difficulties. She lived in a residential area. On one eve in the summer, as she was alone in her home, she was raped by one of the temporary staff members, who had stayed for the night shift. Because of her learning and speaking difficulties, she did not know how she would narrate her story to others. After a period of 5 months, the care team of Helen found out that she was pregnant. A care professional said, “They discovered the relief care agency hadn't done the proper checks” (Hogg, 2009). In order to identify the culprit responsible for Helen’s condition, a forensic investigation was carried out. Soon after the investigation opened, the temporary staff member was caught. He was an illegal immigrant. The worker got imprisoned and it was considered Helen’s success. However, the trauma the woman went through at the time she was raped, the after-rape period, and later, when she was declared pregnant was too much for the justification of a few years of imprisonment for the rapist. Not only was she humiliated at the time when she was raped, but she would have to live with the memories of it for the rest of her life along with her child. Therefore, such kinds of cases offer the victim both physical and psychological abuse.

Helen’s was only one of the millions of cases that happen all over the world every day. “Women age 12 or older annually sustained almost 5 million violent victimizations in 1992 and 1993” (Sound Vision, 2011). In everyday work, women happen to have frequent encounters with men many of whom have malicious intentions. Women have long been suffering from such shameless attitudes of their co-workers. Particularly, for women, it is very difficult to react to such injustice. As human beings and an adult, women tend not to risk their modesty by reporting such accidents to the police as everyone would then learn what had happened with them. “…while child-abuse cases frequently hit the headlines, many of those involving adults never even make it to court” (Hogg, 2009).