Sexual abuse

Childhood sexual abuse is devastating to those who experience it. In adulthood, the lingering long-term consequences are many. These can include low self-image, anxiety, depression, addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder, complex PTSD, trouble establishing and maintaining relationships, adjustment issues, feelings of low self-worth and a sense of unease about one's identify or place in the world. Long-term counseling with a qualified therapist can be helpful. The most effective therapy…

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…

being sexual abused in her home. The student confided the information to a friend. The friend told the teacher about the abuse and the teacher informed the school counselor. After a verbal counseling session and play therapy, the student showed signs of sexual abuse. The State of Maryland requires an official report of sexual abuse to be reported in forty-eight hours to Child Protective Services, the school principal made an official report of the abuse to CPS. Keywords: sexual abuse,…

Childhood Sexual Abuse by Debra Rose Wilson explains the necessity for professionals to be aware of the correlation between sexual abuse at an early age and the deteriorating health of adult survivors’. The Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA, 1996), includes using persuasion, enticement, and other inducements to coerce a child to engage in sexually explicit conduct or simulation of sexual acts” (Wilson 56). Children should never have to go through this, but childhood sexual abuse…

disorders, emotional distress such as constant anger, flashbacks etc (Gluck, 2012, p.1). Child rape is associated with trauma- related shame and guilt (Aakvag, 2016). It has been shown that survivors take personal responsibility for the abuse. Child sexual abuse is frightening because it causes stress long after the experiences. When they grow up they find it difficult to establish interpersonal relationships because they face difficulties with trusting people (Ratican,1992). It is extremely…

What is Sexual Harassment? Sexual harassment is a type of sex separation that abuses Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII applies to businesses with 15 or more representatives, including state and neighborhood governments. It likewise applies to livelihood offices and to work associations, and additionally to the government. Unwelcome sexual advances, demands for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when this…

The sole perpetrators of the underground web of sexual exploitation and abuse should be charged more harshly and brought to justice. A pimp is just another way to say a domestic sex trafficker (www.wgbh.org), as he is the “manager” of these women. He controls and sets them up on dates and gains profit from them. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, annually a pimp is able to make between $150,000 to $200,000 a year if he trafficks…

nightmares become reality, and innocence is pulled out from under them. Sexual abuse is like the monster hiding under the bed, feeding off the fear of its victims. A more clinical definition of sexual abuse can be found in the fifth edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. It defines it as, "Criminal sexual activity, especially that involving a victim below the age of sexual consent or incapable of sexual consent" (American Heritage® Dictionary of the…

to impact the prosperity of Native Tribes all over the United states. Sexual abuse in relation to an overuse of drug and alcohol consumption result in the highest suicide rate of any population in the United States. With the highest rate of both poverty and depression in the United States, it is common for Native Americans to look for drugs and alcohol as an escape from their suffering. In a study performed by The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) dating from…

There are no details on the sexual abuse, because Jordan refuses to talk about it. It is unknown how often the abuse takes place. The reporter stated it is believed the sexual abuse has been going on for about 2 and a half years. The reporter stated it may have…