Statistics

• Research shows that one out of every three to five women, and one out of ever five to seven men are sexually abused by the time they reach their eighteenth birthday. Every two minutes a woman is raped (NCVS 2002).
• One in every eight rape victims were males (NCVS 2002).
• The year in a male’s life when he is most likely to be a victim of sexual assault is the age of 4 (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2000).
• Approximately 60% of boys and 80% of girls who are sexually victimized are abused by someone known to the child or the child’s family (Lieb, Quinsey, and Berliner, 1998).
• It is estimated that children with disabilities are 4 to 10 times more vulnerable to sexual abuse than their non-disabled peers (NRC, 1992).
• One in 33 youth received an aggressive sexual solicitation in the past year. This means a predator asked a young person to meet somewhere, called a young person on the phone, and/or sent the young person correspondence, money, or gifts through the U.S. Postal Service (USDOJ, 2001).
• Approximately 95% of teenage prostitutes (girls and boys) have been sexually abused (CCPCA, 1992).

Sex Offenders Statistics:

• The typical child sex offender molests an average of 117 children, most of whom do not report the offense (National Institute of Mental Health, 1988).
• About 60% of male survivors sampled, report at least one of their perpetrators to be female (Mendel, 1993).
• About 95% of victims know their perpetrators (CCPCA, 1992).
• Over a 25-year period, child molesters had a higher rate of re-offense than rapists: 52%