Descriptive Analysis of the Characteristics of Proven Cases of Sexual Abuse in Victims With Intellectual Disabilities and Children With Typical Development in Spain

2019 ◽  
pp. 088626051988820
Author(s):  
Alba Vara ◽  
José M. Quintana ◽  
Sergio Escorial ◽  
Antonio L. Manzanero
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Typical Development ◽  
Sexual Crime ◽  
Sexual Offenses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Civil Guard ◽  
Do So ◽  
Special Protection

Children and people with intellectual disability (ID) are considered to be highly vulnerable and in need of special protection against sexual abuse (SA). The objective of this work was to analyze the characteristics of cases of SA in children with typical development and in people with ID in Spain. To do so, 25 cases of each type that had been investigated by specialized groups of the Judicial Police of the Spanish Civil Guard and that had been classified as proven and confirmed by police and forensic-medical evidence were analyzed. The results allowed the establishment of the typical minor victim profile as Spanish female (76%), with an average age of 8.64 years. Typical victim with ID was characterized as being of Spanish, aged 20.28 years on average, without prior sexual experience, and similar percentages of males (40%) and females (60%). In both cases, the aggressor usually acted alone, was known to the victim, had an average age of 42 years, and without a history of sexual offenses. The most common child sexual crime was SA with penetration, practiced repeatedly, using strategies such as the use of force, authority, rewards, or secrecy. Victims with ID suffered sexual abuse with penetration, using force, authority, threats or blackmail. Finally, 36% of minors not disclose the events by only 8% of victims with ID. Spontaneity was found in the 40% first disclosure in both victims, with greater police evidence and greater recognition of guilt on behalf of the aggressors against victims without disabilities. Minors took an average of 26.26 days to report the facts, and victims with ID of 64.94. It is necessary to know more about these types of offenses to design appropriate prevention and detection programs.

scholarly journals Futile Sexual Homicide in Nepal: A Case Report

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (243) ◽  
pp. 1174-1176
Author(s):  
Alok Atreya ◽  
Shiva Pandit ◽  
Samata Nepal ◽  
Jun Bajracharya ◽  
Deepak Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Case Report ◽  
Sexual Intercourse ◽  
Sexual Homicide ◽  
Sexual Offenses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Uncommon Case

Although cases of sexual offenses are not uncommon in children, they present to the Emergency Department seeking treatment for a medical cause. Sometimes the history of abuse is missed by the treating clinicians who are only focused upon the presenting complaint and not upon the underlying cause. Furthermore, the lack of reporting of sexual abuse in medical literatures makes them a rarity in the Nepalese scenario. We present an uncommon case of a child where the perpetrator who tried to silence her during the sexual intercourse made a futile attempt to kill her cutting her throat with a sickle.

Judging Children's Credibility––Cracks in the Culture of Disbelief, or Business as Usual?

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 735-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona E. Raitt
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Witnesses ◽  
Law Reform ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
Sexual Offenses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Conflicting Interests ◽  
Business As Usual

The child complainant of sexual abuse is widely regarded as the paradigmatic vulnerable witness who is most likely to encounter difficulties in giving evidence. Most adversarial jurisdictions have introduced a range of statutory measures designed to protect and support child complainants throughout the legal process and to assist them to give evidence to the best of their ability. Nonetheless, critics claim child complainants still face a culture of disbelief, largely sustained by continuing adversarial practices intended to protect the rights of the accused. Tis accounts for persistent representations of children as tending to fabricate, exaggerate, or imagine the abuse that they allege, despite the recognition of their needs as complainant-witnesses. Such representations indicate a disjuncture between progress in policy and in law reform and the appearance that it is business as usual within the courts. Tis paper explores this disjuncture. It acknowledges that, while the terms for the reception of children's evidence into the courtroom have changed, the repositioning that has occurred has not yet eliminated misgivings toward children's evidence. The lightest of inferences can call up a history of doubt––a powerful reminder of the tenacity of the dynamics of discounting in sexual offenses. Even so, the paper argues that the judicial language used to describe child witnesses is more nuanced and balanced than in previous decades, suggesting a more complex appreciation of the child's capabilities is developing, one which holds the potential for an enhanced accommodation of the conflicting interests surrounding adversarialism and vulnerability.

Childhood Sexual Abuse in Adolescents Adjudicated for Sexual Offenses: Mental Health Consequences and Sexual Offending Behaviors

Sexual Abuse ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo B. Morais ◽  
Apryl A. Alexander ◽  
Rebecca L. Fix ◽  
Barry R. Burkhart
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Sexual Abuse ◽  
Parental Attachment ◽  
Sexual Offending ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
Sexual Offenses ◽  
History Of ◽  
Attachment Difficulties ◽  
Sexually Offending

Most studies on the mental health consequences of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) focus predominantly on CSA survivors who do not commit sexual offenses. The current study examined the effects of CSA on 498 male adolescents adjudicated for sexual offenses who represent the small portion of CSA survivors who engage in sexual offenses. The prevalence of internalizing symptoms, parental attachment difficulties, specific sexual offending behaviors, and risk for sexually offending were compared among participants with and without a history of CSA. Results indicated that participants with a history of CSA were more likely to be diagnosed with major depression and posttraumatic stress disorder than those who did not report a history of CSA. A history of CSA was also positively correlated with risk for sexually offending and with specific offense patterns and consensual sexual behaviors. No significant differences emerged on parental attachment difficulties. These results highlight that adolescents adjudicated for sexual offenses with a history of CSA present with differences in sexual and psychological functioning as well as markedly different offending patterns when compared with those without a CSA history. Clinical implications and future directions are discussed.

Sexual Abuse and the Severity of Bulimic Symptoms

1992 ◽  
Vol 161 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Waller
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Clinical Series ◽  
Bulimic Symptoms ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bulimic Women ◽  
Unwanted Sexual Experience

In a clinical series of 40 bulimic women, a reported history of unwanted sexual experience was associated with more frequent bingeing and (to a lesser extent) vomiting. These symptoms were more marked when the abuse was intrafamilial, involved force, or occurred before the victim was 14 years old. Further research is required to establish the causal links between the phenomena of sexual abuse and bulimic symptoms.

scholarly journals Prevalence and Overlap of Childhood and Adult Physical, Sexual, and Emotional Abuse: A Descriptive Analysis of Results From the Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Survey

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 381-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gretchen R. Chiu ◽  
Karen E. Lutfey ◽  
Heather J. Litman ◽  
Carol L. Link ◽  
Susan A. Hall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Single Type ◽  
Poverty Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Analysis Of Results ◽  
And Gender

Abuse is associated with a wide variety of health problems, yet comprehensive population-based data are scant. Existing literature focuses on a single type of abuse, population, or lifestage. Using a racially/ethnically diverse community-based sample, we document the prevalence of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse by lifestage and gender; assess variation in abuse by sociodemographics; establish overlap of abuses; and examine childhood abuse relationships with abuse in adulthood. Prevalence of abuse ranges from 15% to 27%; women report more adulthood emotional abuse and lifetime sexual abuse than men; reports of abuse can vary by race/ethnicity and poverty status, particularly in women; there is overlap between types of abuse; and a history of childhood abuse is associated with a greater risk of abuse as an adult.

Sexual Abuse as a Factor in Eating Disorders

1991 ◽  
Vol 159 (5) ◽  
pp. 664-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Waller
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Clinical Interview ◽  
History Of ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Unwanted Sexual Experience

Clinicians have reported a link between sexual abuse and eating disorders, but research evidence to date has been equivocal in supporting that link. This study presents data on reported sexual abuse from 67 anorexic and bulimic patients. Bulimics were substantially more likely to report a history of unwanted sexual experience than anorexics. The method used (clinical interview v. questionnaire) did not affect reported rates of abuse. It is suggested that sexual abuse per se may not cause eating disorders, but may determine the nature of those disorders when they have been prompted by other factors.

History of Sexual Abuse Negatively Impacts Resilience to Suicide

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Meyer ◽  
Meghan Marty ◽  
Andrea June ◽  
Daniel L. Segal
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
History Of

Home, Sweet Home: Negotiating Intimacy in Brazilian Elitist Closed Condominiums

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 374-395
Author(s):  
Rafael Ignacio Estrada Mejia ◽  
Carla Guerrón Guerron Montero
Keyword(s):  
Collective Mode ◽  
Living Arrangement ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Social Distinction ◽  
History Of ◽  
Collective Production ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

This article aims to decrease the cultural invisibility of the wealthy by exploring the Brazilian emergent elites and their preferred living arrangement: elitist closed condominiums (BECCs) from a micropolitical perspective.  We answer the question: What is the relationship between intimacy and subjectivity that is produced in the collective mode of existence of BECCs? To do so, we trace the history of the elite home, from the master’s house (casa grande) to contemporary closed condominiums. Following, we discuss the features of closed condominiums as spaces of segregation, fragmentation and social distinction, characterized by minimal public life and an internalized sociability. Finally, based on ethnographic research conducted in the mid-size city of Londrina (state of Paraná) between 2015 and 2017, we concentrate on four members of the emergent elite who live in BECCs, addressing their collective production of subjectivity. 

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