Statistics to assisting proving judicial incompetence when your child is being sexually abused and the magistrate is assisting the paedophile
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Children rarely lie about or imagine sexual assault. In 98% of cases their statements are found to be true. (Dympna House, 1990) .
One in three girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused in some way before the age of 18 years. (Australian Institute of Criminology, 1993).
Girls were two to three times more likely to be abused than boys. (Johnston & Saenz, 1997).
On average, approximately 6,500 sexual offences were reported to the Queensland Police Service annually between the years of 1996 and 1998. The majority of reported offences were committed against children younger than 16 years of age (58%). (Queensland Criminal Justice Commission, 1999).
During the 1990’s, Australian courts dealt with nearly 450 individual child sexual assaults by priests. (Eros Foundation, 2000)
It is estimated that 1 in 4 girls and between 1 in 7 and 1 in 12 boys are victims of sexual abuse. (James, 2000).
Age of victim: 0-8 (24.6%); 9-12 (36.6%); 13-16 (39.0%) (Smallbone & Wortley, 2000) At 30 June 2001 there were 4.2 children per 1,000 on care and protection orders and 3.9 per 1,000 in out-of home care. (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2002).
Acceptance and validation are crucial to the psychological survival of the victim” (p 179). Disclosure to family, friends, and the justice system can often exacerbate the effects of abuse. Too frequently, disbelief and blame result in secondary assault to the child and compound the already negative effects of the original abuse. (Summit, 1983).In 98% of all child abuse cases reported to officials, children’s statements were found to be true. (NSW Child Protection Council, cited in Dympna House 1998).
Family members commit 39% of the reported sexual assaults on children (Snyder, 2000).
Females do sexually abuse in a small proportion of cases, approximately 5% of female victims and 20% of male victims experience sexual abuse perpetrated by a female. (Finkelhor & Russell, 1984).
Young people who had experienced child sexual abuse had a suicide rate that was 10.7 to 13.0 times the national Australian Rates. (Plunkett, Shrimpton & Parkinson, 2001)
As high as 81% of men and women in psychiatric hospitals with a variety of major mental illness diagnoses, have experienced physical and/or sexual abuse. 67% of these men and women were abused as children. (Jacobson & Richardson, 1987). (Source : http://www.bravehearts.org.au/files/Facts%20and%20Stats_updated141212.pdf)
