Infants at Greatest Risk for Abuse

This CNN article entitled "Infants at Greatest Risk for Child Abuse" discusses the recently-released statistics on child abuse in the U.S. It indicates that for children under the age of 1, the incidence of abuse is 8 times higher than other ages. For children on Medicaid, they were 6 times more likely to be abused than children not on Medicaid (therefore higher risk is linked to SES). What are the underlying reasons behind these higher rates of abuse? How might someone create anti-abuse program that would be targeted towards these two more vulnerable populations?