This video discusses the challenges of addressing child injuries, which can be difficult for parents and caregivers. It emphasizes the importance of communication between parents, attorneys, and mental health professionals to understand a child's experience. The video highlights the need for specialized support to help children express their feelings and experiences related to their injuries.
If your child is injured, it's important to seek medical attention immediately. After ensuring their safety, consult with an attorney who specializes in child injury cases to understand your rights and options.
Encourage open conversations and create a safe environment for your child to express their feelings. Involving a child psychologist can also help facilitate communication about their experiences.
Parents are crucial in identifying changes in their child's behavior and emotions. Their observations can provide valuable insights that help attorneys and medical professionals understand the child's experience.
Being a father, every night I ask God to watch over my two daughters, to protect them and keep them safe for harm. Injuries to children are difficult to talk about because they are the most innocent among us. Unfortunately, it is a fact of life. Those injuries range from car accident injuries, slip and fall injuries, daycare injuries, sexual abuse injuries, and the problem is children often can't vocalize the injury. Either either too young or they're so traumatized. They can't tell us about their pain or they're scared to. They're afraid to tell an adult or their parents what happened. I've been involved in cases involving sexual abuse of children where the person who did the abusing threatened the child, threatened to injure that child's family if he told or she told. That's why it is so necessary when a child is injured no matter what the circumstances that the parents work closely with the attorney and the doctors as well as mental health professionals because a lot of times in these cases it is necessary for me as the attorney to involve a child psychologist, a child psychiatrist to get the child to open up to us to tell us exactly what's going on. How were they injured? What happened? How do they feel? Children are resilient. They don't voice or vocalize pain. It's hard for them to tell us how they feel. That's why it is imperative to work closely with that child's parents because the parents see the changes in behavior. They see the nightmares. They see how the child may be withdrawn. That is why the parents are so key to these cases as well as the medical professionals and mental health workers and it applies not only in sexual abuse cases and daycare cases but in car accident cases in your normal like say for example a trip and fall case. Children will withdraw. They don't want to tell us how they feel and it's necessary to be able to get that information through the appropriate experts so that lawyers like Tom and I who've been doing this now for years are able to present that evidence correctly to a jury.
