Reporting Child Abuse - West Virginia

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West Virginia

Under West Virginia law, certain professionals (including doctors and medical professionals, religious healers, mental health professionals, teachers and school personnel, social workers, child care providers, law enforcement officers, judges, youth camp administrators, employees, coaches, volunteers of an entity that provides organized youth activities, commercial film developers, and others) are required to report known or suspected child abuse to the Department of Health and Human Resources within forty-eight hours. Any reports of sexual abuse or abuse resulting in serious injury must be made to the State Police and any law enforcement agency.

To access the entire child abuse chapter in the official West Virginia Code online, follow:

http://www.legis.state.wv.us/WVCODE/Code.cfm?chap=49&art=6A#06A

To access this specific section in the official West Virginia Code online, follow:

http://www.legis.state.wv.us/WVCODE/ChapterEntire.cfm?chap=49&art=6A&section=2#06A

For more information of reporting abuse in West Virginia, visit the Department of Health and Human Resources website at the following links:

http://www.wvdhhr.org/report.asp

http://www.wvdhhr.org/bcf/children_adult/cps/report.asp

To find contact information for your local department of health and human resources, follow this link:

http://www.wvdhhr.org/bcf/county/

To Report Child Abuse in West Virginia Call:

Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline

1-800-352-6513 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting