Child physical abuse may be grounds for a personal injury or wrongful death lawsuit. Has your child experienced a personal injury from physical or sexual abuse caused by an adult? Learn how to get help by contacting a child injury lawyer at Kiley Law Group in Andover, Massachusetts.

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Seeking Justice When Your Child Experiences Physical Abuse (Part A)

Child physical abuse can surprise parents when a trusted adult is responsible for a child's injuries or death. The perpetrator could be someone your child talks to every day - a favorite relative, sports coach or next-door neighbor.

An Abuser Could be Someone Close to You

The behavior can be something you never would have thought possible from that person. Physical abuse of children can be a one-time violent act or systematic injury on repeated occasions. In either case, your loved one may suffer serious physical and mental injuries resulting from any incidents.

The type of physical abuse may relate to a child's age, such as baby shaking or pinching, or to a caregiver's negligence, such as an unsupervised pool drowning.

A child injury attorney who specializes in personal injury and wrongful death can help you get to the bottom of your child's problems and learn who is responsible. Sometimes a school or business is also liable. If the physical abuse is shown to be part of a larger pattern involving other young individuals, the case against the offending adult will become even stronger.

Still, physical abuse of children can be difficult to prove. "Reasonable" physical discipline, or corporal punishment, can blur the lines of child abuse laws.

If parents practice this type of discipline at home, it might be more difficult to persuade a jury of a child's physical abuse claim. A personal injury lawyer who works with child abuses cases and knows about new laws and court decisions can best handle this sensitive legal issue.

The Boundaries of Child Abuse

It should be simple to distinguish physical punishment meant to "smart" from physical force that ends in injury to a child. Parents who file civil lawsuits over child abuse do so when there is physical or behavioral evidence.

A serious child accident such as a head injury or brain injury can devastate and completely change your child's life as well as your family's lives. If your child has been injured through physical abuse or sexual abuse in Boston, Massachusetts you should contact an experienced child injury lawyer to determine liability.

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Massachusetts personal injury lawyer, Thomas M. Kiley, is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and is a respected member of the American Association for Justice and the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys.

The personal injury attorneys at the Law Office of Kiley Law Group are dedicated to helping the victims of:

Car, motorcycle, truck, van or bus accident
Single vehicle accidents such as SUV or 15-passenger van rollovers
Pedestrian accidents such as a hit and run
Defective products such as ineffective airbags or seatbelts, prescription drugs with unpublicized side-effects, or hazardous children's toys
Child injury and child abuse such as negligence
Birth injuries such as trauma during labor or cerebral palsy

We Serve Clients Across the State of Massachusetts
The firm's headquarters are in Andover, MA and serves the following cities in Massachusetts: Boston, Danvers, Haverhill, Lawrence, Lowell, Methuen, Middleton, Reading, and Salem, MA and Salem, New Hampshire.

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