From 2009-2013, child protective services agencies found evidence to support an estimated 63,000 children a year were victims of child sexual abuse. That’s one child every 8 minutes. 34% of these children are not even 12 years old, while 66% are between 12 and 17. 82% of these victims are female, with females between the ages of 16-19 being 4x more likely to be victims of attempted or completed rape or sexual assault. These children are 4x more likely to abuse drugs, 4x more likely to have symptoms of PTSD as adults, and 3x more likely to experience major depressive episodes as adults.
In 93% of these cases, the perpetrator was known to the victim. 59% are aquaintainces and 34% are family members. Only 7% are strangers. 80% of perpetrators were a parent, 6% were other relatives, 5% were “other”-from siblings to strangers, and 4% were the unmarried partners of a parent. Out ot the sexual abuse cases reported to CPS in 2013, 47,000 men and 5,000 women were the alleged perpetrators. In 88% of child sexual abuse cases substantiated by CPS, the perpetrators were male. In 9% of cases, the perptrators were female, and in 3%, the gender of the perpetrator was not identified.
All of this information can be found at https://www.rainn.org/statistics/children-and-teens.
People, Not Property 