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Child Sexual Abuse

Accurate data is difficult to obtain as many go unreported. However, Pereda, Guilera, Forns, o& Fomez-Benito’s (2006, as cited in Kramer, 2013) study revealed in 65 scholarly articles and 22 countries, 19.7% of women and 7.9% of men had been victims of sexual abuse before 18 years old. Additionally, Wekerle, MacMillan, Leung, & Jamieson’s (2008, as cited in Kramer, 2013) study showed that in the U.S. 25.3% for women and 7.5% men where 75%-90% of cases involved a perpetrator who is a family member or known to the family as in a neighbor, caretaker, coach, or family friend.

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