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There you have it. What is the best way to end the epidemic of child sexual abuse, while remaining the most ethical?
In case you are unfamiliar with the issue, here are a few facts to get you started (though, remember, there is much more to this issue than can be summed up in a list of statistics):
In case you are unfamiliar with the issue, here are a few facts to get you started (though, remember, there is much more to this issue than can be summed up in a list of statistics):
- Child sexual abuse affects roughly 13-20% of children in the US, and between 10-20% of children worldwide. It is thought that boys are just as much affected by sexual abuse as girls, but more boys do not report abuse.
- 92-96% of abuse allegations are true, and those that are false typically originate with adults.
- Roughly 38-50% of abuse is reported to the police.
- 93% of perpetrators are people known and trusted in the community.
- 95% of sex crimes are committed by those with no criminal record.
- Sexual recidivism among child sex offenders is lower than that of other sex offenders, on average around 4-8%, in California, as low as .6%. It is more common for sex offenders to recidivate with a non-sexual crime, like a probation/parole violation or failure to register.
- 81% of sex abuse happens in a one-on-one situation, and 77% is committed in a residence.
- 97% of sex offenders have at least one adverse childhood experience in their background.
- One-third of contact child sex offenders have pedophilia, and two-thirds of offenders with sexual abuse material have pedophilia.
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