Child sexual abuse Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Demographics=== Offenders are more likely to be relatives or acquaintances of their victim than strangers.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Fergusson|first1=DM|last2=Lynskey|first2=MT|last3=Horwood|first3=LJ|s2cid=32786225|title=Childhood sexual abuse and psychiatric disorder in young adulthood: I. Prevalence of sexual abuse and factors associated with sexual abuse|journal=J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry|volume= 35 |issue= 10 |pages=1355β1364|date=October 1996|doi= 10.1097/00004583-199610000-00023 |pmid= 8885590 |hdl=10523/10282|hdl-access=free}}</ref> A 2006β07 Idaho study of 430 cases found that 82% of juvenile sex offenders were known to the victims (acquaintances 46% or relatives 36%).<ref>{{cite web|author=C.L. Butch Otter |author2=Lawrence Wasden |date=January 2008|title=The Prosecution of Child Sexual Abuse in Idaho July 1, 2006 β June 30, 2007|url=http://www2.state.id.us/ag/sexual_prosecution_reports/2007IdahoProsecutionOfChildSexualAbuseReport.pdf|access-date=2008-01-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411140946/http://www2.state.id.us/ag/sexual_prosecution_reports/2007IdahoProsecutionOfChildSexualAbuseReport.pdf|archive-date=April 11, 2008|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kpvi.com/Global/story.asp?S=7770431|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625194210/http://www.kpvi.com/Global/story.asp?S=7770431|archive-date=25 June 2009|title=KPVI article|work=kpvi.com|access-date=23 March 2015}}</ref> More offenders are male than female, though the percentage varies between studies. The percentage of incidents of sexual abuse by female perpetrators that come to the attention of the legal system is usually reported to be between 1% and 4%.<ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.1080/00224490309552195|pmid=14533025|last=M. S.|first=Denov|date=1 Aug 2003|title=The myth of innocence: sexual scripts and the recognition of child sexual abuse by female perpetrators|journal=The Journal of Sex Research|volume=40|issue=3|pages=303β314|s2cid=41459407|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-3286320/The-myth-of-innocence-sexual.html}}</ref> Studies of sexual misconduct in US schools with female offenders have shown mixed results with rates between 4% and 43% of female offenders.<ref name="Shakeshaft25">{{cite web|url=http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/report.pdf|title=Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of the Literature", U.S. Department of Education, 2004, p25, Shakeshaft, C.|website=ed.gov}}</ref> Maletzky (1993) found that, of his sample of 4,402 convicted child sex offenders, 0.4% were female.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1007/BF00856862 |title=Factors associated with success and failure in the behavioral and cognitive treatment of sexual offenders |year=1988 |last1=Maletzky |first1=Barry M. |journal=Annals of Sex Research |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=241β258|s2cid=198915624 }}</ref> According to research conducted in Australia by Kelly Richards on child sexual abuse, 35.1% of female victims were abused by another male relative and 16.4% of male victims were abused by another male relative. Male relatives were found to be the most relevant predators in the case of both gender.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi429|title=Misperceptions about child sex offenders|first=Australian Institute of|last=Criminology|date=September 30, 2011|website=Australian Institute of Criminology}}</ref> In U.S. schools, educators who offend range in age from "21 to 75 years old, with an average age of 28".<ref>Shakeshaft, C, "[http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/research/pubs/misconductreview/report.pdf Educator Sexual Misconduct: A Synthesis of the Literature]", U.S. Department of Education, 2004, p.24-25.</ref> According to C.E. Dettmeijer-Vermeulen, Dutch national spokeswoman on human traffic and sexual violence against children, in the Netherlands, 3% of the convicted perpetrators are women,<ref name="ontuchtrechter">{{Cite web|url=http://content1a.omroep.nl/urishieldv2/l27m4a273de7013477f0005da98af5000000.f2fcc54cbfc460050cf0cd7108a6c9b9/nos/docs/BNRMOntuchtDEF.PDF|title=Ontucht voor de rechter|access-date=2019-10-18}}{{dead link|date=January 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> 14.58% of the victims are boys<ref name="ontuchtrechter"/> and "most victims were abused by a family member, friend or acquaintance."<ref name="ontuchtrechter"/> One in six perpetrators is underage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nos.nl/artikel/2084576-seksueel-misbruik-minderjarigen-vrijwel-altijd-door-bekenden.html|title=Seksueel misbruik minderjarigen vrijwel altijd door bekenden|website=nos.nl|date=3 February 2016 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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