What To Do
Read the case study and answer the questions provided in the linked file. Please note: Your assignment will be graded based on how you apply the information learned in class, thus your answers need to be thorough. Use complete sentences in response to the questions posed and please correct all spelling errors as points may be deducted for grammar and spelling mistakes.
NUTRI320/ECE415
Child Abuse
Read the case study and answer the questions below. Y our assignment will be graded based on how you apply the information learned in class, thus your answers need to be thorough. Use complete sentences in response to the questions posed and please correct all spelling errors as points may be deducted for grammar and spelling mistakes.
When it was time to go outdoors, 3 year-old Cassandra said she didn’t want to play and headed for her locker. At the teacher’s gentle insistence, Cassandra reluctantly joined the other children on the playground. Tears rolled down her cheeks when the teacher boosted Cassandra onto a swing seat and began to push her. The teacher stopped the swing and helped Cassandra off. She held her closely for a few minutes and then asked why she was crying. Cassandra initially denied that anything was wrong. However, when the teacher persisted, said she ‘had fallen the night before and hurt her bottom.’
The teacher took Cassandra inside and asked to see where she had been hurt. When Cassandra pulled down her shorts, the teacher noted what appeared to be a large burn with blisters approximately 2 inches in length by 1 inch in width on her left buttock. Several small bruises were also evident along one side of the burn. Again, the teacher quietly asked Cassandra how she had been hurt, and once again she replied that she ‘had fallen’.
1. What actions should Cassandra’s teacher take? Would you recommend that the teacher report the incident right away or wait until she gathered more evidence? Why?
2. Using the figure below as your template, write an incident report using Cassandra’s information presented in this case study, i.e. pretend that you’re Cassandra’s teacher and you are being asked to file a report.
3. Would your feelings and responses be different if this was a first-time versus a repeated occurrence? Why?
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