“Over the past decade, more than 20,000 children in America are believed to have been killed in their homes by family members; this is four times the number of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, giving America the worst reports of child abuse in the industrialized world” (Radford 2011). There are four types of abuse that you need to understand before reporting; physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and physical or emotional neglect. Child abuse leaves such a strong impact on the victim's life even after the transition into adulthood; he is still a prisoner of his childhood; attempting to create a new life, still remembering the events of the trauma. The key concept to preventing and reducing child abuse and neglect is understanding; in 1970, such a unique and hard-to-believe case would impact the world of psychology in understanding the crucial long-term effects of severe abuse and how it can take a turn. they affect how the child grows and functions fully in terms of language, relationships, and the ability to handle basic tasks. The case study concerned a child under the alias Genie, a victim of severe abuse and neglect so severe that the circumstances of the abuse left her immobilized, severely malnourished, and prevented from learning the language due to her insulation. by society causing her to have a lack of speech, that psychologists wanted to find out if there was a critical period in which one needs to learn language and the harrowing circumstances that would prevent a person from learning speech. Not only did this case have such a huge impact on the world of psychology, giving them greater insight into child abuse and how much of a strain abuse can be on the victim, but it also gave the public a first 'real idea of ​​how much they should pay attention to any strange living arrangements for children, but also really pay attention to the people in their communities and help in any way they can. Communities need to build trust and unity in their residence, know the names of the neighbors, the names of every single child in the family and make sure that the family also has some kind of relationship or interaction