Sexual Abuse Crime

The Crime of Sexual Abuse For ages sexual abuse has been going on making several people suffer all around the world. In the United States, sexual abuse has the fastest rate than any other crimes. In the article Sexual Abuse , by World of Health states that in 2001, 91 percent of victims of sexual assault were female and 67 percent of those females were under the age of eighteen. Still according to the World of Health, in 2003 at least 70 percent of sexual assaults were committed by the victim’s friend, acquaintance, or one of their family member. An abundant number of people in the United States suffer lifelong pain, figuring different ways to handle themselves after the abuse, and others has to deal with the experience of child abuse.

Many people do not feel the same after the assault, they rather feel helpless, guilty of what happened, humiliation, or have insomnia. Not only those effects can happen to a victim but they either can have flashbacks of the assault, avoidance of the place where the abuse occured, or avoidance of activities depending if it has a resemblance to the abuse. According to World of Health, they described how a female who is a victim of sexual assault has been rated less healthy than a female who has not experienced sexual victimization. Due to this, victims has to visit the physician twice as often and increasing their medical cost. They increased their medical cost depending on their medical issues like intense injuries, or the abuser transmitted diseases into their system, or even cause pregnancy. Hundreds of females do suffer after the abuse and are damaged

Child sexual abuse is one of the greatest issues happening in the United States. In Sexual Abuse, states how studies shows that out of every four children will become a victim of sexual assault and every one of those children will be assaulted by someone they know, love, and trust. They can be assaulted physical, verbally, or emotionally. Many children who experienced this do not report any abuse because they might be too young to explain what they been through, or are afraid do to the threats of the abuser, or even fear how getting into trouble from the person they tell, feeling responsible of what happened. Or they either have bribed to keep it as a secret between them, fear they are called a liar, or confused because of what they witnessed was not “ loving attention”. They can either feel that what they experienced was their fault and blame themselves for it or they do not want to get their abuser into trouble, if the person has a great significance toward the child. Either way child sexual abuse is a dangerous issue and adults should start realizing the