… protecting the innocence and simplicity of children

Russell County Child Advocacy Center

To contact us:

Phone: 334-297-4962

Fax: 334-297-4794

E-mail: rccac@bellsouth.net

Child Abuse Statistics

 

· 1-4 Girls and 1-6 Boys will be sexually abused before their 18th birthday.
-darkness to light, 2004

 

·  Each day in the United States, more than 3 children die as a result of child abuse in the home.

-U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Child Maltreatment 2001

 

•Adults were the offender in 60% of the sexual assaults of youth under age 12. Rarely were the offenders of young victims strangers. Strangers were the offender in just 3% of sexual assaults against victims under age 6 and 5% of the sexual assault of victimizations of youth ages 6 through 11.
-Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement,
7/00, NCJ 182990, U.S. Department of Justice

• 93% of child sexual assault cases involve persons known to the child, such as a caretaker or family acquaintance. 34% of child sexual abuse offenders are relatives, 59% are acquaintances, and only 11% are strangers.
-darkness to light , 2004.

• More children (age four and younger) die from child abuse and neglect than any other single, leading cause of injury death for infants and young children. This includes falls, choking on food, suffocation, drowning, residential fires, and motor vehicle accidents.

-US Department of Health and Human Services, Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect). Based upon figures from the National Safety Council and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Most of the children who die are younger than six years of age . Of these fatalities, 84.5 percent were under the age of six; 41 percent of the children were under the age of one.

—U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Child Maltreatment 2001

•The typical offender is male, begins molesting by age 15, engages in a variety of deviant behavior, and molests an average of 117 youngsters, most of whom do not report the offense.
-Dr. Gene Abel in a National Institute of Mental Health Study.;
 

• More than 3 million cases of abuse and neglect were reported in 2000.
.- Prevent Child Abuse America, 2001.

 

• The temporal pattern of sexual assault show that unlike adults, young juveniles are at highest risk of sexual assault in the hours when meals are served and after school.
-Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement,
7/00, NCJ 182990, U.S. Department of Justice

• 1 in 3 victims of physical abuse is an infant less than a year old.
-The Carnegie Corporation of New York

 • The 1992 national protective service costs of investigation and services for child abuse was $500,000,000; hospital costs $800,000,000; mental health $815,000,000 for therapeutic care and counseling, and $2.8 billion for hospitalization.
-The Exchange Club Abuse Prevention Center.

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