Sexual abuse in childhood: a multi-dimentional look from the view point of victims and perpetrators. Düşünen Adam

Sexual abuse in childhood: a multi-dimentional look from the view point of victims and perpetrators Objective: In this study, sexual abuse was investigated in the case of the children who were criminals or victims. Sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, educational level, family background, etc.), reasons of referral, diagnoses and report results were evaluated particularly. Methods: Personal files of all of the children-adolescents who were referred to Karadeniz Technical University Medical Faculty Child and Adolescent’s Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2010 have been examined retrospectively. Data of the cases sent by legal authorities or detected as the victim or defendant of a sexual abuse event after psychiatric evaluation were analyzed by using SPSS 13.0 and required statistics were applied. Results: There were 118 cases in total; 88.1 % (n=104) were victims and 11.8 % (n=14) were defendants. Average age of victims was 10.8±3.3 and 82 of them (78.8%) were girl and 22 of them (21.2%) were boy. On the other hand, average age of the defendants was 14.3±1.0 and all defendants were boys (100%). It was found that the most frequent (48.8%) sexual abuse type in girls was stroking directly or over clothes (n=40) while i