■ Massachusetts has the highest rate of confirmed cases of child abuse and neglect
in the country.1
■ The number of children reported as abused and neglected during 2009 in
Massachusetts was 115,814.2
■ The number of children confirmed as abused or neglected during 2009 in
Massachusetts – 32,789 – would nearly fill Fenway Park.3
1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth and Families. Child Maltreatment 2007 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2009).
2. Massachusetts Department of Children and Families
3. Ibid