You respond to a private residence to find a 4-month-old infant with a fractured humerus. Your examination also reveals numerous bruises and abrasions in various stages of healing on the child's back and buttocks and what appear to be cigarette burns on the child's palms and soles. The child's mother says that the fracture was a result of the infant's rolling off the bed onto the floor. You
should:
a. call the police and have the mother arrested for child abuse.
b. lecture the mother sternly about her treatment of the child.
c. transport the child and report your suspicions to the physician at the emergency department.
d. keep what you suspect to yourself, because you may be liable if you falsely report child abuse.
c
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