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Horrible Facts about Child Abuse


What makes child abuse more devastating is that despite the horror it brings to innocent victim, the crime continues to infect the children and that infection can even start at home. And each nation deals with this situation very seriously, yet surprisingly, many still commit the act, giving them a sense of power.

This sense of power is the most common reason of the rapists who committed child abuse. Some of these abusers are no strangers; they can be a relative of the victim. And sometimes, they belong to a high-class family, where most of us find surprising, because such issues are not usually reported because of their influence to the society.

 

Some Facts about Child Abuse

Such fact is the case in India, where the reports of child abuse is alarmingly growing:

  1. The crime starts at the child’s fifth age, and the most number of sexual abuse appears when the victim is between the ages of 12 to 15.

  2. A survey for the report for Alochana, out of 12, 447 children, there is 53.22% of them who are abused one or more time.

  3. 52.94% of the victims are boys

  4. 47.06% are girls

Read the entire report in:

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14547541

 


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