Child Sexual Abuse Statistics
- Approximately one in five women in the United States and one in ten men experienced some form of sexual abuse as children. One-third to one-half of child sexual abuse victims are under the age of seven.
- Children with disabilities are 1.75 times more likely to experience sexual abuse than other children.
- Child sexual abuse is rarely committed by the "dangerous stranger" about whom children are often warned. In 70 to 90 percent of reported cases, the perpetrator is actually someone the child knows. In clinical studies, parent figures make up a third of the offenders, and relatives constitute half of the offenders.
Abuse
1 : a corrupt practice or custom
2 : improper or excessive use or treatment: MISUSE
3 : a deceitful act : DECEPTION
4 : language that condemns or vilifies usually unjustly, intemperately, and angrily
5 : physical maltreatment |
