About forty million children world-wide suffer from child abuse, Sixty percent of all abuse cases are neglect. "Child neglect is the failure to provide for the shelter, safety, supervision and nutritional needs of the child." Child neglect may be physical, emotional or educational. Jordan Heikamp was born May 19, 1997 to his single mother Renee in Toronto. At the time, his mother was only 19 years old and was homeless, Renee went to stay in a homeless shelter with Jordan while she was watched over by the CCAS (Catholic Children's Aid Society). Throughout the next five weeks, every time Renee was asked about her son, she said he was doing well, she said he was gaining weight, and that a doctor had seen Jordan. Any time anyone saw the baby he was always wrapped in a blanket, no one ever actually got a good look at him. On June 23, 1997 Renee brought Jordan to the hospital, but at just five weeks old, he had already went to heaven. Jordan had starved to death, he was extremely emaciated weighing four pounds, two ounces. Jordan Austin Micheal Robert Scott Desmond Heikamp from May 19 to June 23, 1997.
This video is showing how a mother neglected her child for whatever reason. She neglected her child by feeding him nothing but water and she failed to get him the help he needed. She allowed her child to be starved to death and did nothing about it, she kept him wrapped in a blanket so no one would notice anything strange about him and question her. Why would any parent do such a thing to their child? No child deserve to be treated like that and its sad because God had blessed her with a beautiful child and she treated him bad to the point where his life was taken from him.
Did you know that more children die from neglect than from abuse? Yea i didn't know that until I watched this video. There are many things some of us don't know about abuse and neglect, things are happening everyday without us knowing it, everyday of our lives we are doing things and living our lives while other people around the world are suffering from abuse, neglect and many more. lets work together to help put a stop to abuse and neglect.
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