Summary Of A Child Called It By Dave Pelzer

“A Child Called It” is an account from a victim of child abuse from how it was before the abuse began to the transitioning into the actual abuse, and finally leaving that life of abuse. The author and victim Dave Pelzer had described his account of the abuse that occurred. The beginning of the book starts out with Dave being helped by the school, and police after recognizing the signs of abuse present. The first chapter really gives the reader a look into how he was saved but leaves an interest on how Dave was abused. The abuse transitions in the later on in the chapters with it progressively becoming very unsettling that something like that actually had happened to a child. Some of the acts of abuse can be seen as unbelievably believable to

“The Third National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect indicated that schools had reported more cases of child abuse than any other institution” as stated Dombrowski and Gischlar’s article (2006, p. 234). Schools being the intuitions that reported more cases are significant because children spend a lot of their time in school. However, the article states that 84% of all suspected abuse cases were never reported, which really does affect abuse victims lives (Dombrowski & Gischlar). Being a mandated reporter give school staff a role to protect children from cases of abuse and neglect. It is part of a duty of being a mandated reporter to report a suspected case of child abuse. Even if it is suspected, it is still important to report the case because then the statistics of child abuse cases reported in schools might not have quite a

Once the principal has received Miss Moss’s concerns over David, he should have met with David or have him checked by the school nurse in addition to the meeting. Instead, he just had set up a meeting with only the mother. Miss Moss was correct to have a suspicion, but the principal had failed to check David’s side of the story, which would really help him leave the home of abuse. Meeting with David would show the principal his behavior, regardless if he would confess or not. If David was not respondent toward the principal, he may have the nurse check-up on his body. The meeting with David should also include the school’s social worker as they may provide input on David’s behavior. Having the school nurse check his body would provide some evidence towards the abuse taking place. Taking the mother’s word for it does not provide enough evidence for David’s “suspected” case of abuse. Following through the suspicions of any teacher in the school may really help a potential victim of abuse get the help they