State Poverty Rate4…………….……10.9% Poverty Rate, Children Under 185……14.9% Poverty Rate, Children Ages 5–176…..13.8% Poverty Rate, Children Under 57…..17.6% CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT

abuse and neglect. Of those, 29,780 reports were referred for investigation.8 • In 2011, 10,012 children were victims of abuse or neglect in Connecticut, a rate of 12.5 per 1,000 children, representing a 8.3 % decrease from 2010. Of these children, 85.2 % were neglected, 6.0 % were physically abused, and 4.8 % were sexually abused.9 • The number of child victims has increased 1.4 % in comparison to the number of victims in 2007.10 • In 2011, 8 children in Connecticut died as a result of abuse or neglect.11 • In 2011, 4,926 children in Connecticut lived apart from their families in out-of-home care, compared with 4,462 children in 2009. In 2010, 1,347 of the children living apart from their families were age 5 or younger, and 1,439 were 16 or older.12 • The number of children living apart from their families in out-of-home care has decreased 14.5 % in comparison to the number of children in out-of-home care in 2007.13 • Of Connecticut children in out-of-home care in 2011, 32.1% were white, 27.1 % black, 33.0 % Hispanic, 0.1 % America