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Child Maltreatment 2001
Table 5-4 Fatalities by Perpetrator Relationship, 2001

The word bold before a number indicates an estimate or a total.

Perpetrator	Number of Fatality Victims	Percent of Fatality Victims
Mother Only	278	32.4
Father Only	122	14.2
Mother and Father	198	23.1
Mother and Other1	100	11.6
Father and Other1	13	1.5
Nonparent Perpetrator2	120	14.0
Unknown or Missing	28	3.3
Total	bold859	bold100.1

Based on data from 30 States: Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wyoming.

If a State did not report the perpetrator relationship of a child fatality, that fatality was not included in this analysis.

¹ Category includes victims with one perpetrator identified as a Mother or Father and a second perpetrator identified as a Nonparent.back

² Category includes victims with as least one perpetrator identified as a Nonparent; no parent was involved. back

This table, based on data from 30 States, first lists the following perpetrator relationships to the victims: Mother Only, Father Only, Mother and Father, Mother and Other, Father and Other, Nonparent Perpetrator, Unknown or Missing. In the following column are listed the number of fatality victims from the specified perpetrator. The third column lists the percentage of fatality victims by each relationship.

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