Strengthening the role of children's emergency services in the prevention of peer abuse.

Peer abuse is harmful and agressive behavior exerted continuously and recurrently by an individual or a group on another person of about the same age who is weaker in which strength is abused. This agressive behavior may emerge with different clinical pictures ranging from emotional trauma to physical trauma and even mortality (1). Children who are exposed to peer abuse and especially the ones with findings of physical injury present to pediatric emergency services. Pediatric emergency physicans should play the role of a bridge by providing assessment of the findings of physical trauma of the child who is the victim as well as assessment of acute and potential chronic psychiatric problems. This case was presented to increase the level of awareness of the physicans who work in emergency services which are the primary centers where children exposed to peer abuse are presented.