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Approximately one in three girls is sexually abused before the age of 18.
Source and Web site: Child Abuse: Statistics, Research, and Resources by Jim Hopper

Approximately one in four girls is sexually abused before the age of 14.
Source and Web site: Child Abuse: Statistics, Research, and Resources by Jim Hopper

Approximately one in six boys is sexually abused before the age of 16.
Source and Web site: Child Abuse: Statistics, Research, and Resources by Jim Hopper

An average of 5.5 children per 10,000 enrolled in day care are sexually abused, an average of 8.9 children out of every 10,000 are abused in the home.
Source: Finkelhor & Williams, 1988. Web site: Presented by Pandora's Box: The Secrecy of Child Sexual Abuse ~~ Dr. Faulkner -- Sexual Abuse Statistics

In 1997, 1,054,000 children were confirmed by CPS as victims of child maltreatment. This represents 15 out of every 1,000 U.S. children.
Web site: NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO PREVENT CHILD ABUSE

In 1997, over 3 million (3,195,000) children were reported for child abuse and neglect to child protective service (CPS) agencies in the United States. This figure represents a 1.7% increase over the number of children reported in 1996. Child abuse reporting levels have increased 41% between 1988 and 1997. Experts attribute much of the increase in reporting to greater public awareness of and willingness to report child maltreatment, as well as changes in how states collected reports of maltreatment.
Source : (Wang & Daro, 1998). Web site: NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO PREVENT CHILD ABUSE

In the adult retrosptective study, victimization was reported by 27 percent of the women and 16 percent of the men. The median age for the occurrence of reported abuse was 9.9 for boys and 9.6 for girls. Victimization occurred before age eight for 22 percent of boys and for 23 percent of girls. Most of the abuse of both boys and girls was by offenders 10 or more years older than their victims. Girls were more likely than boys to disclose the abuse. Forty-two percent of the women and thirty-three percent of the men reported never having disclosed the experience to anyone.
Source: Finkelhor et al., 1990. Web site: Presented by Pandora's Box: The Secrecy of Child Sexual Abuse ~~ Dr. Faulkner -- Sexual Abuse Statistics

Studies of the general population of adults show that anywhere from 6 to 63% of females were sexually abused as children. A 1985 L.A. Times national survey found that 27% of women and 16% of men reported being sexually abused prior to age 18 (Finkelhor, 1986). The true extent of sexual abuse is unknown
Web site: NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO PREVENT CHILD ABUSE

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