Child sexual abuse

Historically, due to cultural family values, society denied child sexual abuse. What we now identify as abuse was not always thought of as abuse. For instance in 18th-century London people thought a cure for venereal disease was to have sexual relations with a child (Olafson, Corwin, & Summit, 1993).Victims of sexual abuse in American work were thought of as sexual aberrants or participating victims (Gordon, 1988; Schlossman & Wallach, 1978; Weiss, Rogers, Darwin, & Dutton, 1955 as cited in…

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a form of child abuse that children are sexually used because of their immaturity without letting them understand or giving informed consent (Giardino, 2014). It seems like child sexual abuse is a familiar word but somehow is secretively and socially unspeakable topic, which makes it a severe, insidious and persistent problem. Child sexual abuse rarely causes children to death and their physical injury and pain can be healed completely in time, however, its…

When it comes to child sexual abuse there are a lot of stakeholders that get involved when it comes to the welfare of a child. In conducting this research, three relevant stakeholders will be explored and they are as follows: Stewards of Children Prevention programs (Change Agent), the parents or caretakers (Targets) and children (Clients). According to the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) (2012), “Darkness to Light,” a non-profit organization designed Stewards of Children program to…

There are approximately eighty thousand reported cases of child sexual abuse every year; leaving alone the cases that go unreported. Child sexual abuse is a crime that can lead the child to have physical, social and psychological dysfunctions for the trauma it causes. (Recognizing Child Abuse: Sexual Abuse) Therefore essential actions must be taken in order to minimize and solve the problem; for instance, understanding the types of sexual abuse, recognition of the signs, acknowledgement of how a…

Child Sexual abuse is the hardest abuse to prove in a court of law and relies heavily on the trustworthiness of a child’s statement. Criminal courts look at several reliability factors to be present when assessing a child’s hearsay statement for credibility. After viewing Honesty’s disclosure video, I conclude that Honesty’s statement is trustworthy as evidenced by several reliability factors I observed in the video. The first reliability factor I noticed in the video was the proper questioning…

The book Child Sexual Abuse is another anthology featuring thirteen different authors voicing their expert opinions on a variety of topics surrounding sexual abuse. David Finkelhor who has a PhD in Sociology at the University of Hampshire strongly believes that all children who are abused sexually never fully recover, but the children who have been abused physically and emotionally can recover at a faster rate. Recent research by Finkelhor suggests that 6% of sexually abused children find a way…

their attacker. How do you feel knowing that eightyfive percent of the abuse takes place within a family member or close friend? Unwanted touching, being forced to have sex with others besides your partner, and videotaping or photographing sexual acts and posting it without your permission are just a few of the many different types of sexual abuse that have a negative impact on people. Even though, some people believe sexual abuse has no lasting negative impact on its victims, it does. Here…

of the Child Abuse Services Team (CAST) Educational Program workshops. The topic of the training workshop was Taking Responsibility: We Can Prevent Child Sexual Abuse spoken by Joelle Casteix who is an advocate of child sexual abuse prevention. I would like to address some of the information I have learned through this workshop in regard to child sexual abuse. One of the first statements Joelle mentioned was that child sexual abuse has nothing to do with sex and the victim of sexual abuse is…

do not always mean that a child being abused, however they could help to recognise if there is a problem that should be looked into. Possible signs and symptoms of sexual abuse may include a child becoming overly affectionate to other children or developing a sexual knowledge that is inappropriate for the age of the child. The child may also show signs of medical problems such as pain in the genitals or chronic itching. Obvious personality changes may be shown in the child, such as them becoming…

The impacts of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) on victims has been widely documented in the research literature over the past decades. In particular a large body of research has been published on the long term impacts of CSA and whether there is a direct link between it and the effects that occur later in life. Although much of the earlier research in this area used cross-sectional studies with convenience or clinical samples, recent studies have progressively used large random community samples…