CHILD CUSTODY, ABUSE, NEGLECT, VISITATION

According to the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services, child abuse and neglect occurs when a child is mistreated, resulting in injury or risk of harm. Abuse can be physical, verbal, emotional or sexual.

From start to finish we can help by providing you with documented detailed reports, DVD’s, photographs and background investigations. Our investigators have obtained critical evidence in cases where children have been at risk. We can provide you or your attorney with documented facts of unwarranted behavior of persons directly involved with your children. When you need answers we have a proven track record of providing critical evidence in child custody cases.
In child custody investigations evidence may need to be gathered to show the children's living conditions, improper environments or situations, and to identify third-party persons who are given access to the children. 
So whether it is covert surveillance, the documentation of a person’s activities (proof of drinking and drugs), DUI charges, uncover criminal records and other background searches, CSI can assist in an effort to prevent possible or further child abuse, endangerment and neglect.

CHILD ABUSE CAN HAPPEN ANYWHERE.

THE BEHAVIOR OF CHILDREN MAY SIGNAL ABUSE OR NEGLECT LONG BEFORE ANY CHANGE IN PHYSICAL APPEARANCE.

SOME SIGNS MAY INCLUDE:

• Sudden, dramatic changes in personality or activities

• Inability to stay awake or concentrate for extended periods of time

• Frequent or unexplained bruises

• Low self-esteem

• Unnatural interest in sex

• Poor hygiene

• Aggression toward adults or other children

• Nervousness around adults

REPORT SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE 1-877-237-0004

PHYSICAL ABUSE is defined as non-accidental physical trauma or injury inflicted by a parent or caretaker on a child. It also includes a parent’s or a caretaker’s failure to protect a child from another person who perpetrated physical abuse on a child. In its most severe form, physical abuse is likely to cause great bodily harm or death.

PHYSICAL NEGLECT is defined as the failure to provide for a child’s physical survival needs to the extent that there is harm to the child’s health or safety. This may include, but is not limited to: abandonment; lack of supervision; life endangering physical hygiene; lack of adequate nutrition that places the child below the normal growth curve; lack of shelter; lack of medical or dental care that results in health threatening conditions, and the inability to meet basic clothing needs of a child. In its most severe form, physical neglect may result in great bodily harm or death.

SEXUAL ABUSE includes penetration or external touching of a child’s intimate parts, oral sex with a child, indecent exposure or any other sexual act performed in a child’s presence for sexual gratification, sexual use of a child for prostitution, and the manufacturing of child pornography. Child sexual abuse is also the willful failure of the parent or the child’s caretaker to make a reasonable effort to stop child sexual abuse by another person.

EMOTIONAL ABUSE includes verbal assaults, ignoring and indifference or constant family conflict. If a child is degraded enough, the child will begin to live up to the image communicated by the abusing

parent or caretaker.