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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,458 Views
14 Pages

Transnational Child Sexual Abuse: Outcomes from a Roundtable Discussion

  • Hannah L. Merdian,
  • Derek E. Perkins,
  • Stephen D. Webster and
  • Darragh McCashin

The phenomenon of men who travel across international borders to engage in child sexual abuse presents significant public health, legal, diplomatic, cultural, and research challenges. Briefed in the current scope of this issue by relevant stakeholder...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
10,513 Views
15 Pages

Diagnosis of Child Sexual Abuse

  • Roland Csorba,
  • Zeynep Atas Elfrink and
  • Panagiotis Tsikouras

30 November 2024

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a widespread and alarming issue, with an estimated global prevalence of 12–13% (affecting 18% of girls and 8% of boys). Despite its prevalence, many physicians working with children have insufficient knowledge of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
11,449 Views
15 Pages

Child sexual abuse (CSA) includes abusive contact experiences, which habitually impact the victim’s whole life. This study aims to analyze the characteristics of six CSA experiences with physical contact, including penetration, in a representative sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,692 Views
19 Pages

16 September 2014

On 12 November 2012 the then Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced she was recommending to the Governor General the establishment of a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Following inquiries in Australia a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
11,729 Views
16 Pages

Child abuse is a worldwide phenomenon with adverse short- and long-term mental and physical negative consequences, with a huge gap between the prevalence of child abuse and disclosure rates. The study aimed to examine and validate the self-figure dra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,239 Views
22 Pages

Empirical analysis has found that mandatory reporting legislation has positive effects on case identification of child sexual abuse both initially and over the long term. However, there is little analysis of the initial and ongoing impact on child pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,735 Views
11 Pages

26 June 2023

While child sexual abuse (CSA) has been declared a public health concern worldwide, the continuous problem is the delayed disclosure that affects child victims in many ways. It poses profound health, psychological and social challenges for child vict...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
39,489 Views
13 Pages

18 January 2018

Utilizing data from 326 cases of alleged child sexual abuse that occurred at or through activities provided by Protestant Christian congregations, this study examines demographic and contextual characteristics of alleged child sexual abuse that took...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
23,124 Views
23 Pages

20 August 2014

Mandatory reporting laws have been created in many jurisdictions as a way of identifying cases of severe child maltreatment on the basis that cases will otherwise remain hidden. These laws usually apply to all four maltreatment types. Other jurisdict...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,062 Views
25 Pages

The Current Preventing of Child Sexual Abuse: A Scoping Review

  • Tetti Solehati,
  • Auliya Ramanda Fikri,
  • Cecep Eli Kosasih,
  • Yanti Hermayanti and
  • Henny Suzana Mediani

4 November 2022

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a global social problem that has a negative impact throughout the victim’s life; therefore, it is necessary to prevent CSA as a protection for children. The study aimed to identify the literature on CSA prevention in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,550 Views
9 Pages

Background: Very few studies focus on childhood sexual abuse in middle European countries. Aim: The purpose of our study is to describe the medical and legal characteristics of children who experience sexual abuse and explore common features that may...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,472 Views
17 Pages

Through a thematic analysis of firsthand posts from 258 abuse survivors in online forums from 2016 to 2023, this research examines the barriers that Chinese children encounter when disclosing sexual abuse. The anonymous narratives shed light on the m...

  • Protocol
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,596 Views
14 Pages

A Systematic Scoping Review of Indigenous People’s Experience of Healing and Recovery from Child Sexual Abuse

  • Jordan Gibbs,
  • Helen Milroy,
  • Stella Mulder,
  • Carlina Black,
  • Catherine Lloyd-Johnsen,
  • Stephanie Brown and
  • Graham Gee

Child sexual abuse is a form of violence that occurs across nations and cultures. Collective efforts are being made to address this issue within many Indigenous communities. In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities have express...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,493 Views
13 Pages

This study conducts a spatio-temporal analysis to identify trends and clusters of child sexual abuse in Mexico City before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Sexual abuses of children were analyzed considering various crime theories. Trends an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,628 Views
14 Pages

German Version of the Child Sexual Abuse Myth Scale (CSAMS-G): Translation, Expansion, and Construct Validation

  • Lennart Bayer,
  • Maike Cigelski,
  • Justine Eilfgang,
  • Elisabeth Barbara Kraus,
  • Frieda Mensing and
  • Simone Pülschen

28 January 2025

Research is needed on the myths regarding child sexual abuse in order to address commonly held misconceptions in persons training for professional careers in relevant fields for child protection. We present our translated, validated, and expanded Chi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,285 Views
13 Pages

The objective of this study was to analyze the effects of attachment style and emotional security in the family system on suicidal ideation in a sample of young adult female victims of child sexual abuse (CSA). The possible effects of CSA characteris...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
20,870 Views
17 Pages

Organized and ritual child sexual abuse (ORA) is often rooted in the child’s own family. Empirical evidence on possible associations between ORA and trauma-related symptoms in those who report this kind of extreme and prolonged violence is rare...

  • Article
  • Open Access

Forensic Perspectives on Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure in Greece: A Retrospective Study

  • Konstantinos Dimitriou,
  • Vasiliki Efthymiou,
  • Kallirroi Fragkou,
  • Pierre-Antoine Peyron,
  • Laurent Martrille,
  • Eric Baccino,
  • Flora Bacopoulou and
  • Stavroula Papadodima

Purpose: Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a major public health and forensic concern, often involving delayed disclosure that limits evidence collection and affects judicial outcomes. This study analyzed disclosure patterns, victim–perpetrator chara...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,469 Views
11 Pages

Child Sexual Abuse in Mexican Women: Type of Experience, Age, Perpetrator, and Disclosure

  • Pilar Rueda,
  • Marta Ferragut,
  • M. Victoria Cerezo and
  • Margarita Ortiz-Tallo

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a type of maltreatment that occurs in practically all countries and social statuses. Due to the taboo and shame that surrounds it, CSA is a problem universally silenced despite the important consequences (both physical and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,824 Views
13 Pages

11 December 2015

Objective: To investigate the changes in psychological and social domains associated with treatment in survivors of child sexual abuse. Method: Participants from four centers were assessed at baseline and were followed up after six and 12 months. The...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
11,595 Views
13 Pages

Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Children and Adolescents with Disabilities: A Systematic Review

  • Garazi Álvarez-Guerrero,
  • Deborah Fry,
  • Mengyao Lu and
  • Konstantinos Kosmas Gaitis

Online child sexual exploitation and abuse (OCSEA) is a rising global problem affecting children and adolescents worldwide. Despite the escalating prevalence of OCSEA, there is limited research specifically focusing on children and adolescents with d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,644 Views
15 Pages

When the Media Omits or Includes Scientific Evidence in Its Publications: Science and Battles on X about Child Sexual Abuse

  • Ane Olabarria,
  • Ana Burgués-Freitas,
  • Ane López de Aguileta,
  • Harkaitz Zubiri-Esnaola,
  • Elisabeth Torras-Gómez,
  • Mar Joanpere,
  • Garazi López de Aguileta,
  • Garazi Álvarez-Guerrero,
  • Emilia Aiello and
  • Gisela Redondo-Sama

26 November 2023

Scientific evidence of social impact demonstrates how violence against children is successfully prevented. Currently, the scientific research on social impact has a focus on the analysis of actions that succeed in the implementation of such scientifi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,461 Views
13 Pages

Trends in the Prevalence and Case Characteristics of Child Sexual Abuse in Mexico, 2018–2023

  • Leonor Rivera-Rivera,
  • Marina Séris-Martínez,
  • Paola Adanari Ortega-Ceballos,
  • Arturo Reding-Bernal,
  • Claudia I. Astudillo-García,
  • Lorena Elizabeth Castillo Castillo and
  • Luz Myriam Reynales-Shigematsu

30 September 2025

Background: Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a serious public health concern that violates the rights of children. In Mexico, little is known about the actual figures for this type of violence. Objective: This study aimed to determine trends in the preval...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
962 Views
23 Pages

Child sexual abuse (CSA) has consequences beyond the direct victim, affecting non-offending mothers, who may experience psychological, physical, and social symptoms after disclosure. This systematic review examined the impact of CSA on these mothers...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,829 Views
24 Pages

24 May 2019

Since the 1980s, the fear of child sexual abuse (CSA) has become a major cultural feature of a large part of the Western world. Internationally, the unintended consequences of the fear surrounding CSA are rarely investigated and doing so is often con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,058 Views
21 Pages

16 May 2024

Educational institutions and educators are significant in children’s lives, and they have a crucial role in implementing policies, practices, and sexual education to enhance children’s safety. Such policies and practices should be based o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
28 Citations
10,271 Views
13 Pages

Typologies and Psychological Profiles of Child Sexual Abusers: An Extensive Review

  • Yeong Yeong Lim,
  • Suzaily Wahab,
  • Jaya Kumar,
  • Fauziah Ibrahim and
  • Mohammad Rahim Kamaluddin

25 April 2021

Child sexual abuse is a public health issue that has been associated with a variety of negative health outcomes. Child sexual abusers constitute a heterogeneous population of individuals. This review lays out an overview of the current understanding...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,694 Views
18 Pages

11 December 2024

Walking Miracles, a dance/theater project, was created from the stories of six adult survivors of child sexual abuse and completed due to the conscientious work of many collaborators. A psychotherapy group of fourteen sessions was audiotaped and atte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
24,807 Views
19 Pages

30 October 2024

Although the escalation in online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is not a novel problem, recent digital proliferation has brought about new alarming challenges in addressing the issue. CSAM poses significant risks to children and society in gener...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5,117 Views
7 Pages

Anne’s Secret: Teaching Children to Protect Themselves from Child Sexual Abuse Using Animated Cartoons

  • Pilar Rueda,
  • Marta Ferragut,
  • M. Victoria Cerezo,
  • Isabel Calvo and
  • Margarita Ortiz-Tallo

9 February 2022

This paper presents an innovative methodology for the prevention of child sexual abuse (CSA): animated cartoons. CSA is a political, social, educational, and psychological problem that affects many children according to the World Health Organization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,568 Views
12 Pages

Piloting an Alternative Implementation Modality for a School-Based Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Curriculum

  • Nusrat E Mozid,
  • Rebeca N. Espinosa,
  • Corinne Grayson,
  • Oluwatumininu Falode,
  • Yilei Yang,
  • Christelle Glaudin and
  • Kate Guastaferro

Background: In the U.S., the most pervasive child sexual abuse (CSA) prevention strategy involves school-based prevention programs; however, the reach of these programs is limited due to implementation constraints, such as budgets or turnover. This i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
53,608 Views
19 Pages

Male-On-Male Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse in the Caribbean Region of Colombia: A Secondary Analysis of Medico-Legal Reports

  • Elsa Lucia Escalante-Barrios,
  • Sergi Fàbregues,
  • Julio Meneses,
  • María del Mar García-Vita,
  • Daladier Jabba,
  • Carmen Ricardo-Barreto and
  • Sandra Patricia Ferreira Pérez

Child and adolescent sexual abuse (CSA) is an important global health problem, especially in non-Western low- and middle-income countries. A number of studies have indicated that, in Latin American countries, male CSA is phenomenon of great concern....

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
17,150 Views
19 Pages

26 November 2020

With technological advances, the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has become one of the fastest growing illicit online industries in the United States. Perpetrators are becoming increasingly sophisticated and exploit cu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,040 Views
26 Pages

3 September 2020

Founded in the results of a systematic literature review, a professional development program was developed about the needs of ethnic minority victims/survivors of child sexual abuse, with one component on the role of organisations. The objective was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,108 Views
10 Pages

Perception and Attitude about Child Sexual Abuse among Vietnamese School-Age Children

  • Ha Ngoc Do,
  • Hoa Quynh Thi Nguyen,
  • Linh Thuy Thi Nguyen,
  • Hiep Duy Nguyen,
  • Thanh Phuong Bui,
  • Nguyet Thanh Phan,
  • Hang Thu Thi Do,
  • Giang Hai Ha,
  • Hai Thanh Phan and
  • Roger C. M. Ho
  • + 5 authors

Child sexual abuse has become a significant public health concern in Vietnam in recent years, and the likelihood of being abused could be prevented by increasing the awareness of sexual abuse and self-protection skills among children. However, little...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,912 Views
20 Pages

27 December 2023

This study focused on Jewish national religious educators in Israel by exploring their narratives surrounding coping with the CSA of their students, including the perceived silencing of the phenomena within the community and the desire to provide the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,131 Views
13 Pages

Barriers to Accessing Treatment Services: Child Victims of Youths with Problematic Sexual Behavior

  • Alexandra Slemaker,
  • Peter Mundey,
  • Erin K. Taylor,
  • Lana O. Beasley and
  • Jane F. Silovsky

Child sexual abuse (CSA) remains a significant public health problem. Although the deleterious effects on the child victims could be mitigated through evidence-based interventions, victims often fail to be identified and receive clinical assessment a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
44 Citations
19,238 Views
32 Pages

24 December 2014

This article describes the evolution of forensic interviewing as a method to determine whether or not a child has been sexually abused, focusing primarily on the United States. It notes that forensic interviewing practices are challenged to successfu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,918 Views
11 Pages

Zero Tolerance of Children’s Sexual Abuse from Interreligious Dialogue

  • Cristina M. Pulido,
  • Ana Vidu,
  • Roseli Rodrigues de Mello and
  • Esther Oliver

19 July 2021

Child sexual abuse is a social problem that concerns our societies. The sustainable development goals have highlighted the eradication of child sexual abuse as one of the highest-priority goals of this century. Breaking the silence within religious c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,290 Views
27 Pages

18 April 2019

Child abuse in youth custody in England and Wales is receiving an unprecedented degree of official attention. Historic allegations of abuse by staff in custodial institutions which held children are now being heard by the courts and by the Independen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,216 Views
12 Pages

The Short- and Long-Term Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Child Maltreatment

  • Mengqing Long,
  • Jia Huang,
  • Yishun Peng,
  • Yawen Mai,
  • Xian Yuan and
  • Xinhua Yang

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a new threat to child health and safety. Some studies suggest that social isolation and economic stress have exacerbated child abuse and neglect, whereas other studies argue that orders to stay at home ar...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,002 Views
7 Pages

“Mimics” of Injuries from Child Abuse: Case Series and Review of the Literature

  • Martina Focardi,
  • Valentina Gori,
  • Marta Romanelli,
  • Francesco Santori,
  • Ilenia Bianchi,
  • Regina Rensi,
  • Beatrice Defraia,
  • Rossella Grifoni,
  • Barbara Gualco and
  • Stefania Losi

9 September 2024

The phenomenon of child abuse/maltreatment is underestimated and often represents a difficult challenge for healthcare professionals and forensic pathologists who must proceed with the differential diagnosis with accidental or self-induced events, or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,207 Views
16 Pages

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a severe and concerning public-health problem globally, but some children are at higher risk of experiencing it. The harms caused by colonization and particularly the inter-generational legacy of residential schools would...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,164 Views
16 Pages

Child Protection Victims and the “Evil Institutions”

  • Carolus Van Nijnatten,
  • Marit Hopman and
  • Trudie Knijn

10 October 2014

The Dutch child protection system has been the target of harsh criticism in recent decades. The legitimacy of child protection services seems to have eroded. In this article, we analyze this changing legitimacy of child protection against the backgro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,964 Views
14 Pages

9 March 2023

The problem of child sexual abuse (CSA) is a crucial point of entry into abolition-feminist conversations about justice and punishment, healing and repair. The popular belief that the “child sex offender” is uniquely irredeemable, eternal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,895 Views
13 Pages

15 January 2020

The findings and recommendations emanating from the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2012–2017) have advised religious organisations that they need to undertake significant changes to legal, govern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,755 Views
13 Pages

Assessing the Influence of Child Sexual Behavior on Depression among Black SMM in the Southeastern United States

  • Donte Travon Boyd,
  • Gamji Rabiu Abu-Ba’are,
  • Ashleigh LoVette,
  • Darren L. Whitfield,
  • Rodman E. Turpin,
  • S. Raquel Ramos,
  • Camille R. Quinn and
  • DeMarc A. Hickson

Limited studies have examined the associations between child sexual abuse (CSA) and depression among Black sexual minority men (SMM) in the Southeastern United States (US). As, such, the current study examined the critical gap in understanding the im...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
29,654 Views
24 Pages

26 March 2024

Child sexual abuse (CSA), the most common type of maltreatment, is any action of a sexual nature by one or more adults towards a minor without the minor’s consent. This abuse represents one of the most damaging forms of trauma, has a severe imp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
32 Citations
27,987 Views
11 Pages

22 March 2019

This article provides a short literature overview on female child sexual offenders (FCSO) focusing on the discrepancy between prevalence rates from different sources, characteristics of FCSO and their victims, as well as the societal “culture o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,717 Views
10 Pages

Sexual Abuse vs. Sexual Freedom? A Legal Approach to the Age of Sexual Consent in Adolescents in Spanish-Speaking Countries

  • Sandra M. Parra-Barrera,
  • María del Mar Sánchez-Fuentes,
  • Carlos Fuertes-Iglesias and
  • Miguel Ángel Boldova

Child and adolescent sexual abuse (CSA) is an international public health problem. Despite the importance of CSA, there is no consensus definition, and the lack of consensus is related to difficulties in conducting prevalence studies as well as resea...

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