Karen DeSoto, a well known on-air legal analyst and attorney, recently shared her views about child violence in the blog ‘Children Killing Children’ by Brie Austin

1. Karen DeSoto’s THOUGHTS about ‘Children Killing Children’
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2. Introduction
 Karen DeSoto is a well known on-air legal analyst for NBC News, a
former public defender, prosecutor, and chief corporate counsel for the
city of Jersey City NJ, and recently shared her views about child
violence in the blog ‘Children Killing Children’ by Brie Austin.
(brieaustin.com/2012/10/children-killing-children)
 Karen believes that these instances, though shocking to the core, is not
new. She stated that violence begetting violence seems to be a common
thread, and that violence begets violence, and victims beget victims, and
according to her, this is what has resulted in children killing children.
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3. Stats provide an insight into the reality
 The U.S. Department of Justice reveals that 19% of the State
prison inmates who have been convicted of violence have
committed a crime against a child; 78% of the sexual assault
convicts had abused a child, with 50% of them 12 years old or
younger.
 Other studies revealed that, 1 out of 5 violent offenders in State
prisons have abused a child.
 7 out of 10 offenders who have been convicted of child crime
were imprisoned for a rape or sexual assault.
 Two-thirds of all the prisoners who were found guilty of rape or
sexual assault were involved with one or the other type of child
abuse.
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4. What is society’s role?
 It’s about time that society gives adequate protection to children to prevent a
first time abuse;
 A serious need of providing better awareness and counseling to those
children who have been abused;
 Economic progress should be followed by the strengthening of services, the
treatment and oversight of the victims, as well as those of the felons.
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5. THANK YOU
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