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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