Words similar to maltreatment

Example sentences for: maltreatment

How can you use “maltreatment” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

An estimated 1,249,000 children were harmed by these forms of maltreatment in 1993.
The other, Guess Inc., is about the worst, notorious for its maltreatment of its workers and its ruthlessness in business.
Emotional maltreatment accounted for fully half of the increase in serious cases.
In fact, the percentages of children whose maltreatment was investigated decreased significantly in all categories except educational neglect--from 64 percent to 45 percent among physically abused children, from 75 percent to 44 percent among sexually abused children, from 57 percent to 35 percent among physically neglected children, and from 40 percent to 26 percent among children seriously injured by any maltreatment.
First, at that meeting, I pointed out that the methodological changes that were planned for the study all would have the effect of raising the count of abused and neglected children . In fact, Sedlak and her colleagues described (in a report to HHS) how they planned to "fine-tune" the study to "ensure that categories of key participants who were most likely to encounter suspected maltreatment cases in the [1986 incidence study] are given higher probability of being included in the [new study]."