Child Sex Offenders

Children being sexually abused isn't an uncommon event to happen. There are many people who are unaware of how often children are sexually abused and there are some who understand the overwhelming effect of sexual abuse. According to Victimsofcrime.org one in five girls and one in twenty boys have been a victim of child sexual abuse. Additionally, these children can have many problems in their lives and the child sex offender will not always get the punishment they deserve. Laws and punishments for child sex offenders are too lenient and are not enforced enough. A child sex offender is someone who has committed a sex crime to a minor, a person under eighteen years of age, (but in British Columbia and six other provinces and territories, a …show more content…
School age children will often compensate for feeling helpless after the abuse by blaming themselves for what had happened. A child does this to give themselves a sense of power and make up for the lack of control they have over the abuse. Further, the lack of control they have over the situation may make them feel as if they don’t have control over their future and cause them to act recklessly. In addition, many children experience many changes in their school and social life. It is very common for a child's school performance to significantly drop and have a difficult time concentrating. However, it is also common for a child to become intently focused on schoolwork and exclude any other activities with the intentions that it will help them cope. Aswell, a child may try to test rules because something bad had happened to them even if they had been following the …show more content…
Children can be deeply affected by the abuse and can cause them many problems in their lives. In return, they face many obstacles when filing a case for sexual abuse and in many cases their complainant is not reported. In the case that their complainant does get reported, it is very common for them to have to face many obstacles as shown by an eighteen year old girl whose name is unknown, and in the end the young men who assaulted her were never charged. In addition, although the punishments are reasonable they do not support the victims mental health. As a result, a shocking majority of victims will have to continue and live their lives carrying the burden of being sexually abused and their abuser never being charged or