Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: Body Safety Training for Young Children in Turkey

In the state of Washington, in the early 2000s, several men regularly convened together to be penetrated by horses. Around the same time, three men in Michigan tried to exhume a woman’s corpse so one of the men could penetrate it. I consider these strange scenarios to puncture the good liberal’s posture. The good liberal defaults to consent: sex with horses must be wrong because horses cannot consent and sex with human corpses must be wrong because corpses cannot consent. But consent is startlingly inapposite. Horses and corpses are not the kinds of things to which a consent inquiry reasonably applies because consent is a human construct for governing human relations. These meditations lead to unsettling conclusions about child sexual abuse. The modern notion of the “child” presupposes adult superintendence because children are creatures incapable of consent. But then why should it matter that children cannot consent to sex? Sex between adults and young children is wrong, but not primarily because of the lack of consent. The final point of the chapter is about men. I surmise that what these men sought in sex was not gendered dominance but a break from the strictures of gendered dominance.

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Young children: the visibility paradox

Online Child Sexual Victimisation ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447354505.003.0004 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 87-112

Author(s):

Corinne May-Chahal ◽

Emma Kelly

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Law Enforcement ◽

Child Sexual Abuse ◽

Young Children ◽

Sexual Violence ◽

Family Members ◽

Image Databases ◽

The Past ◽

Traditional Sense ◽

The Subject

This chapter reviews what is known about child sexual abuse media, with a particular focus on the abuse of young children (those under the age of 10). Young children are seldom the subject of research on sexual violence, yet the online-facilitated sexual abuse of these children is known to exist. In the past, child sexual abuse has been described as a hidden phenomenon that is made visible through a child's disclosure or evidence in and on their bodies. Online child sexual victimisation (OCSV) experienced by young children is still hidden in this traditional sense but at the same time highly visible through images that are both detached from the child yet traumatically attached through their creation and continued circulation throughout childhood. Indeed, most of what can be known about OCSV and younger children is through analyses of images harvested online and analyses of law enforcement and non-governmental organisation (NGO) image databases. These sources suggest that OCSV involving young children is different from that experienced by those who are older. It more often involves parents, carers, and family members; it is legally and developmentally impossible for children to consent to it; and images and videos of the abuse are more likely to be trafficked.

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Behavioral approaches to educating young children and their parents about child sexual abuse prevention.

The Journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim Treatment and Prevention ◽

10.1037/h0100434 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 52-64 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Sandy K. Wurtele

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Child Sexual Abuse ◽

Young Children ◽

Abuse Prevention ◽

Sexual Abuse Prevention ◽

Child Sexual Abuse Prevention

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Transgenerational Trauma and Child Sexual Abuse: Reconceptualizing Cases Involving Young Survivors of CSA

Journal of Mental Health Counseling ◽

10.17744/mehc.31.1.u72580m253524811 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 22-33 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Kimberly Frazier ◽

Cirecie West-Olatunji ◽

Shirley St. Juste ◽

Rachael Goodman

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Child Sexual Abuse ◽

Young Children ◽

Primary Caregivers ◽

Mental Health Counselors ◽

Transgenerational Trauma ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Client Population ◽

Young Survivors

While current research on child sexual abuse (CSA) has delineated the immediate and long-term effects of sexual trauma, little has been written about intergenerational influences on the presence and etiology of CSA among young children. Dass-Brailsford (2007) defined transgenerational trauma as trauma that has been passed down from one generation to another, either directly or indirectly. In this paper the authors review the literature on CSA, the influence of primary caregivers, and transgenerational trauma, followed by a case illustration. Specific interventions are pointed out to offer mental health counselors innovative tools for ameliorating the effects of transgenerational trauma with this client population. The authors also highlight effective clinical programs on CSA among young children that acknowledge the influence of intergenerational trauma.

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Malpractice & Negligence: State Supreme Courts Limit Therapists’ Duties to Third Parties

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1017/s1073110500012985 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 204-205

Author(s):

Megan Cleary

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Child Sexual Abuse ◽

Supreme Court ◽

New Hampshire ◽

Third Parties ◽

State Supreme Courts ◽

Recovered Memories ◽

Supreme Courts ◽

Repressed Memory ◽

University Of Colorado

In recent years, the law in the area of recovered memories in child sexual abuse cases has developed rapidly. See J.K. Murray, “Repression, Memory & Suggestibility: A Call for Limitations on the Admissibility of Repressed Memory Testimony in Abuse Trials,” University of Colorado Law Review, 66 (1995): 477-522, at 479. Three cases have defined the scope of liability to third parties. The cases, decided within six months of each other, all involved lawsuits by third parties against therapists, based on treatment in which the patients recovered memories of sexual abuse. The New Hampshire Supreme Court, in Hungerford v. Jones, 722 A.2d 478 (N.H. 1998), allowed such a claim to survive, while the supreme courts in Iowa, in J.A.H. v. Wadle & Associates, 589 N.W.2d 256 (Iowa 1999), and California, in Eear v. Sills, 82 Cal. Rptr. 281 (1991), rejected lawsuits brought by nonpatients for professional liability.

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