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Is not reporting a missing toddler child abuse?


Posted: Jul 15, 2011

I have listened to commentators, lawyers and jurors in Casey Anthony case and I am unable to understand how if a child goes missing and it is not reported this is not abuse. 

Wouldn't the primary person providing care for a child need assistance to look for the child at a certain point and if that person didn't get proper help from authorities in a timely manner and the child was harmed or killed would that be neglect/abuse? 

I understand Casey Anthony was found not guilty on aggravated abuse charges.  How can this be? 

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I'm sure if my child wandered off and I didn't report it - I would be arrested.

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Also there are many stories in news where police have found a child on the street who managed to get out of the house and the parents are held accountable as to how and why that child got out and was on the street unattended.

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