It’s estimated that boys and girls are equally likely to be victims of child abuse:
- A 2005 report states that 47.3 percent of all abused kids were male, while 50.7 percent were female.
- The age group most likely to be abused is children between the birth and 3 years of age.
- The same report states that 49.7 percent of all child abuse victims were white, 23.1 percent were African-American, and 17.4 percent were Hispanic. American Indians accounted for 1.2 percent of abused children, while Asian-Pacific Islanders accounted for less than 1 percent of victims.