Every year, millions of girls and boys around the world face sexual abuse and exploitation. Sexual violence occurs everywhere – in every country and across all segments of society. A child may be subjected to sexual abuse or exploitation at home, at school or in their community. The widespread use of digital technologies can also put children at risk.
Most often, abuse occurs at the hands of someone a child knows and trusts.
Child Molestation is known as child sexual abuse. It is a secret crime involving a range of indecent sexual activities between an adult and a child.
According to the National Violence Against Children Survey, it established that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 10 boys experience sexual violence before the age of 18 in one way or the other.
TYPES OF MOLESTATION:
Defilement
Rape
Fingering
Making a child watch pornography
Exposing the genital to kids
Indecent touching
Fondling etc
At least 120 million girls under the age of 20 – about 1 in 10 – have been forced to engage in sex or perform other sexual acts, although the actual figure is likely much higher. Roughly 90 per cent of adolescent girls who report forced sex say that their first perpetrator was someone they knew, usually a boyfriend or a husband.
But many victims of sexual violence, including millions of boys, never tell anyone.
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