Sexual & Physical Abuse
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The Stats on Sexual & Physical Abuse
- Roughly 1 in 9 girls and 1 in 53 boys under the age of 18 experience sexual abuse or assault at the hands of an adult.
- 82% of all sex abuse victims under 18 are female.
- Females ages 16-19 are 4 times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.
- Nearly 700,000 children are abused in the US each year.
- In 2018, an estimated 1,770 children died from abuse and neglect in the United States.
- Nationally, neglect is the most common form of abuse. Nearly 61% of victims (3 out of 5) were neglected.
- More than 10% of abuse victims were physically abused only and 7% were sexually abused only, while more than 15% of kids suffered two or more forms of abuse.
- Most child victims are abused by a parent, but child-on-child abuse is also common. In 2019, 22% of people alleged to have abused a child were children and 14% were teenagers.
SOURCES: RAINN and National Children’s Alliance
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