Child Abuse and Abduction

Dear Axiata Representatives and my fellow scholars. Our topic for today’s speech is Child Abuse and Abduction. The main theme that we are encountering is social issues. Allow me to ask all of you a question. What are the most serious social issues that we are encountering today? Child abuse and kidnapping are two examples of the most serious problems worldwide. Child abuse can take many forms including physical abuse, sexual abuse and emotional abuse. Physical abuse and sexual abuse normally leave marks on a child’s body such as scars and lesions, while emotional abuse is generally more insidious and stealthy. On sundry occasions, emotional abuse is described as an “invisible” abuse, one that must be overheard to know that it really is happening whereas kidnapping is taking away someone that is against his or her will. According to statistics, it is estimated to make up approximately 10% of every child worldwide is suffering child abuse from their parents. Albeit this makes emotional abuse one of the most ordinary forms of child abuse, it remains as one of the least understood. We, as teenagers, have no rights and power to change or solve this problem but people out there can. Why are the people out there kidnapping all of these children? One of a very good example of child abse is David Pelzer.
Some of you might have heard of him from a book, a TV show or saw the news. He is one of the very few people in America who survived a child abuse situation. He was tortured physically and mentally by his loving mum whom has a sudden change of personality. Finally, concerned school officials saved him. Colleen Stan, too, was one of the victims that was kidnapped and held captive by Cameron Hooker in
Red Bluff California. She was held captive for 7 years and finally saved by police officials. One of the reasons that cause these victims to be caught includes that their previous parents were psychos. They had nervous breakdown another side of