It is important to emphasize that children are the victims and are never to blame for maltreatment. A number of characteristics of an individual child may increase the likelihood of being maltreated.

必须强调的是，儿童是虐待受害者，这绝不是他们的过错。

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Now that some of the dust is settling around the Bernard Madoff scandal, there has been a growing tendency in some quarters to blame the victims, at least in part.

眼下，随着马多夫(Bernard Madoff)丑闻的尘埃逐渐落定，有些阵营里有一种趋势越来越明显，那就是他们认为受害人有过错，至少在一定程度上是这样。

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Asked later on CNN how he could blame the victims, many of whom could not flee the storm because they had no transportation or were too frail to evacuate on their own, Brown said he was not blaming anyone.

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But Haiti's long-term social and political problems are also partly to blame for the slow response to the needs of the earthquake victims.

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"For too long, they have been the forgotten victims of war, responsible for none of the blame but bearing the worst of the pain, " she said.

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