Child Sex Victims Rate
Child sex victim rate skyrockets
"Children in Japan fell victim to violent sex attacks about once every 3 1/2 hours on average last year, a Mainichi survey of Japan's prefectural police forces has showed.
Violent sex attacks on children have soared by 70 percent over the past decade, according to the results of a poll on 46 of the country's 47 prefectural police forces.
Police figures showed that last year more than 2,600 little children of junior high school age or younger fell victim to rape or indecent assault.
The figure is about 70 percent greater than the 1,530 reported in 1994, the last time a similar survey was carried out by police.
Tragically, police fear that there is not only an increase of sex attacks on children, but large numbers of victims are not reporting the crimes committed against them and the actual rate of sex crimes is believed to be significantly higher.
The total number of reported child sex crime victims was 2,607. Of the 232 rape victims, there was one pre-school child, 58 elementary school children and 173 children from junior high school. Another 2,375 reported cases of indecent assaults on children were also dealt with. These involved 167 pre-schoolers, 1,381 elementary school children and 827 junior high school pupils....
...In a 1998 survey by a group of experts on child abuse, 29 percent of women and 3.7 percent of men aged from 18 to 39 reported having been made the victim of some sort of sexual abuse before they had turned 18.
Child sex victims are often plagued by the attacks, frequently finding it difficult to deal with the opposite sex. Many require therapy for years...
Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, May 12, 2005
"Children in Japan fell victim to violent sex attacks about once every 3 1/2 hours on average last year, a Mainichi survey of Japan's prefectural police forces has showed.
Violent sex attacks on children have soared by 70 percent over the past decade, according to the results of a poll on 46 of the country's 47 prefectural police forces.
Police figures showed that last year more than 2,600 little children of junior high school age or younger fell victim to rape or indecent assault.
The figure is about 70 percent greater than the 1,530 reported in 1994, the last time a similar survey was carried out by police.
Tragically, police fear that there is not only an increase of sex attacks on children, but large numbers of victims are not reporting the crimes committed against them and the actual rate of sex crimes is believed to be significantly higher.
The total number of reported child sex crime victims was 2,607. Of the 232 rape victims, there was one pre-school child, 58 elementary school children and 173 children from junior high school. Another 2,375 reported cases of indecent assaults on children were also dealt with. These involved 167 pre-schoolers, 1,381 elementary school children and 827 junior high school pupils....
...In a 1998 survey by a group of experts on child abuse, 29 percent of women and 3.7 percent of men aged from 18 to 39 reported having been made the victim of some sort of sexual abuse before they had turned 18.
Child sex victims are often plagued by the attacks, frequently finding it difficult to deal with the opposite sex. Many require therapy for years...
Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, May 12, 2005
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