Child Abuse: il ruolo del medico legale nell'assistenza, nella prevenzione e nella preparazione di linee guida

With my thesis I wanted to explore the phenomenon of child abuse and child abuse by sketching on the basis of national and international scientific literature, clinical, and epidemiological risk factors. A brief review will discuss legal, then the statutory provisions relating to the protection of minors, in particular, we will look to illustrate those articles that organize the duties of health in relation to the judicial authority in cases of suspected child abuse. The semiotics of knowledge of the abuse, its identification in a forensic clinical differential diagnosis, the correct repertazione and the realization that a truly tutelante approach towards the victim, must always take place within a legal framework makes it that the role of forensic medicine, competent in all these areas, without a doubt become "first among equals" within multidisciplinary teams and institutions that deal with child victims. The Panel in which they are inserted and which is being drafted in the manual is the Working Group for the abuse and mistreatment of children coordinated by Dr. Maria Rosa Giolito and involved professionals belonging to three different Italian areas of health: the gynecological, the forensic and the children. The text drafted was imagined as an aid to medical professionals who are evaluating a person suspected of prepubertal sexual abuse. This is not a guideline for the diagnosis of sexual abuse, but it defines the essential requirements and disseminates knowledge to avoid some errors that could adversely affect the clinical evaluation and possible subsequent judicial process.