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Child Maltreatment 2002
Table 4-5     Fatalities by Perpetrator Relationship, 2002

Perpetrator	Number of Fatality Victims	Percent of Fatality Victims
Mother Only	294	32.6
Mother and Father	173	19.2
Father Only	150	16.6
Nonparental Perpetrator1	143	15.9
Mother and Other2	82	9.1
Unknown	46	5.1
Father and Other2	13	1.4
Total	901	99.9

Data Source: Child File.

Percent does not equal 100 due to rounding.

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

¹ Category includes victims with at least one perpetrator identified as a nonparent; no parent was involved.

² Category includes victims with one perpetrator identified as a Mother or Father and a second perpetrator identified as a nonparent.

This table first lists the following perpetrator relationships to the victims: mother only, mother and father, father only, mother and other, nonparental perpetrator, unknown, and father and other. 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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