[LINK] NetAlert Campaign 'truth' finally coming out

[Stilgherrian]

On 15/12/07 12:40 PM, "Adrian Chadd" <adrian at creative.net.au> wrote:
> Does anyone have the statistics for child molestation handy? Whats the
> %age of child molestation that occurs from family members/acquaintances/
> non-"strangers", and how has this changed over the last 50 years?

Google turned this up:

A study in three states found 96 percent of reported rape survivors under
age 12 knew the attacker. Four percent of the offenders were strangers, 20
percent were fathers 16 percent were relatives and 50 percent were
acquaintances or friends. Among women 18 or older, 12 percent were raped by
a family member, 33 percent by a stranger and 55 percent by an acquaintance.

In up to 50 percent of reported cases, offenders are adolescents.1,5 In 82
percent of accusations recently studied the accused offender was a
heterosexual partner of a close relative of the child's. Researchers
estimate that between 96 to 100 percent of accused abusers are recognizably
heterosexual.25 Another study found that almost half of offending fathers
and stepfathers also abused children outside their family.

Much more in this fact sheet.

http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/PUBLICATIONS/factsheet/fsabuse1.htm

Stil


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