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Child Molestation Prevention and Protection Study
Because of the large number of its victims and the extent of damage to their health, child molestation has become a national health problem. A study sample of 16,109 adults was tested in 41 states regarding sexual boundary violations. Reports were analyzed of 4,007 adults, ages 18 to 95, who admitted they had sexually molested one or several children. (Excerpted from The Stop Child Molestation Book).
Test-takers are referred for testing by their employers, lawyers, criminal justice professionals, or by mental or medical professionals. These test-takers usually have a sexual violation that includes: professional sexual misconduct exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, child molestation; and other possible paraphilias.
The 16,109 test-takers were divided into three groups:
Group one reported they were not child molesters. Totaled 5,152 males and 304 females.
Group two were reported by the mental health professional that they were either lying or in denial about being a child molester. Totaled 5,138 males and 194 females.
Group three reported they admitted to molesting one or several children. Totaled 5,218 males and 103 females.
The major part of the study was concentrated on the third group. This group was defined to match the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic criteria for age of the child by limiting it to the people that admitted to molesting children 13 years or younger. The total was 3,952 males and 55 females.
Exclusions from this test were adults who sexually interact with adolescents. Interacting with adolescents is called ephebophiles. They did not fit the medical diagnostic criteria for pedophilia. Women were also eliminated. There were only 55
who admitted to molesting a child of 13 years or younger. This number was too small to yield significant results. Definitions of “child” and “child molestation” were used from the medical criteria of the American Psychiatric Association.
Child: Any girl or boy 13 years or younger. To be in the child molester group in this study, the test-taker must have reported that he or she had sexually touched a child 13 years or younger.
Child Molestation: The act of sexually touching a child.
Child Molester: Any older child or adult who touches a child or his or her own sexual gratification.
Age Difference: To fit the medically accepted definition of a child molester, the person sexually touching the child must be at least five years older. Estimated number of molested children An analysis was used by David Finkelhor, Ph.D. from his 1986 A Sourcebook on Child Sexual Abuse, page 65 to estimate the number of molested children. He analyzed 6 studies of sexual abuse, which yielded an average of sexually abused girls per 100 by age of onset – age 1 through 18. To estimate the number of boys the same source was used, and found the number of boy victims was 45 percent of the number of girls. The final estimated numbers were 2,231,372 sexually abused girls and 1,004,117
sexually abused boys. The same source was used for adult survivors. The final numbers were 27,160,752 adult females and 12,222,388 adult males are survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Social class of child molesters Studies of the sexual abuse of children have failed to demonstrate there is a link to lower income and lower levels of education. In this culture’s social demographics, the admitted child molesters paralleled and existed in five or more ethnic groups. The act of molesting a child is prompted by a factor outside of the molester’s social status or ethnic group.
Child molester’s relation to the child Of the men who admitted being a child molester, 68 percent reported they had molested a child in their family. Nineteen percent molested their biological child, 30 percent their stepchild, adopted child, or foster child, 18 percent their nieces or nephews,
and 5 percent, their grandchildren. Nearly 24 percent who were molesting children in their family were also molesting the children of their friends or neighbors. Only 10 percent of child molesters reported they molested a child who “was a stranger”.
While the number of adopted children and of foster children is far less than the number of biological children or stepchildren, we must keep these percentages in context References
Excerpted from The Stop Child Molestation Book, by Gene G. Abel, M.D., and Nor Harlow (Xlibris 2001) Study text revised April 2002) Retrieved from: Child Molestation Research and Prevention Institute http://childmolestationprevention.org/pdfs/study.pdf
Child Trauma Academy Retrieved from
http://www.childtrauma.org/ctamaterials/sexual_abuse.asp
Crimes Against Children (Justice for Children3) Retrieved from
http://www.vachss.com/av_dispatches/disp_8500_a.html
How Can We Fight Child Abuse (Parade Magazine) Retrieved from
http://www.vachss.com/av_dispatches/disp_8908_a.html
The Difference Between “Sick” and “Evil” (Parade) Retrieved from
http://www.vachss.com/av_dispatches/parade_071402.html
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