Crime Prevention : Safety Tips

Verbal Abuse

This is a form of emotional abuse, when the abuser abuses a child by calling him/her names, swearing at him/her and shouting at him/her.

Verbal abuse takes the form of things said and done that destroy a child=s confidence or self-respect.

Victims may be:

• called names and may be insulted
• constantly criticised and embarrassed in public
• threatened or even thrown out.
   

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