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Child sexual abuse (CSA) is an insidious crime that can destroy the lives of innocent children and leave their families devastated. The topic of child sexual abuse is, at best, a difficult subject to discuss and at worst, a horrifying one.

Child sexual abuse has been defined as:
"Child sexual abuse involves any sexual activity with a child where consent is not or cannot be given. This includes sexual contact that is accomplished by force or threat of force, regardless of the age of the participants, and all sexual contact between an adult and a child, regardless of whether there is deception or the child understands the sexual nature of the activity. Sexual contact between an older and a younger child also can be abusive if there is a significant disparity in age, development, or size, rendering the younger child incapable of giving informed consent. The sexually abusive acts may include sexual penetration, sexual touching, or non-contact sexual acts such as exposure or voyeurism."

The following is a representative list of risk factors related specifically to child sexual abuse within youth-serving organizations. Note that the emphasis is on "unsupervised" access to children in a variety of ways.

* Unsupervised contact with children
* Transportation of children
* Long term contact with children in live-in situation
* Extreme physical exertion in a remote setting with children
* Visit to children's homes
* Helping children change clothes, bathe, or with other personal activities
* Coaching sports in which physical contact between adult and child is routine
* Delivery of meals to children's homes

While many of the YSO's have undertaken a number of steps to keep the children safe, there are many such organizations that have not faced the facts about the profound risks to children that exist every day.

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Vie de famille

Soutien psychologique et conseils familiaux

Sexualité

sexualité

Sexualité

Sexual Abuse

Juvenile Nonfiction

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Date de parution	15 décembre 2015
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EAN13	9781456625528
Langue	English
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Preventing Child
Sexual Abuse
In Youth-Serving
Organizations
Guidelines for Managers & Parents

Norman D. Bates, Esq.
Christine Army, MA
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Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank the following experts for their review and assessment of this publication. Their comments and suggestions have strengthened and enriched the final product.
Joshua Bailes
Staff Attorney
National Center for Victims of CrimeAuthors
Mitru Ciarlante
Director, Child and Club Safety
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Charles P. Conroy, Ed.D.
Executive Director
Perkins Special Education Facility, Lancaster, MA
Jeffrey R. Dion
Deputy Executive Director
National Center for Victims of Crime
Carmen Durso, Esq.
Attorney at Law, Boston, MA
Professor Marci A. Hamilton
Paul R. Verkuil Chair in Public Law
at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Yeshiva University
Victor Vieth
Executive Director Emeritus
Gundersen National Child Protection Training Center
Introduction
Child sexual abuse (CSA) is an insidious crime that can destroy the lives of innocent children and leave their families devastated. The topic of child sexual abuse is, at best, a difficult subject to discuss and at worst, a horrifying one.
Why This Publication
The work of Liability Consultants, Inc. includes consulting with all types of organizations on their security problems and potential civil liability in the event that someone is a victim of a violent crime. That work has included retention in civil litigation involving rape and sexual abuse where a child was the victim. In the course of preparing for a number of cases, we found that there was a significant void in information pertaining to institutional response of child sexual abuse.
While there has been a great deal published on the subject of child sexual abuse, there is limited research data specific to extra-familial child sexual abuse within youth-serving organizations. There is also a lack of a single source for these organizations to reference in developing a program to help reduce the risk of such assaults. We also found that there was insufficient guidance for parents who may want to inquire as to how these organizations are protecting their children.
The objective of this publication is to provide information on the scope of the problem of child sexual abuse, offender and victim characteristics, and a model prevention program that includes pre-employment screening, supervision of staff, reporting abuse, and physical design controls available to organizations. We also hope to provide parents with resources and tools that will help them recognize, report, and be proactive against child abuse in youth organizations.
Clarifying the Terminology
This publication will use the term “child sexual abuse”, however, some terminology should be clarified. In many instances, the terms “child sexual abuse” and “child sexual assault” are used interchangeably. Yet the two terms have different legal meanings.
Child sexual abuse has been defined as the following:
“Child sexual abuse involves any sexual activity with a child where consent is not or cannot be given. This includes sexual contact that is accomplished by force or threat of force, regardless of the age of the participants, and all sexual contact between an adult and a child, regardless of whether there is deception or the child understands the sexual nature of the activity. Sexual contact between an older and a younger child also can be abusive if there is a significant disparity in age, development, or size, rendering the younger child incapable of giving informed consent. The sexually abusive acts may include sexual penetration, sexual touching, or non-contact sexual acts such as exposure or voyeurism.” 1
Child sexual assault as defined by National Center for Victims of Crime is the following:
“Sexual assault takes many forms including attacks such as rape or attempted rape, as well as any unwanted sexual contact or threats. Usually a sexual assault occurs when someone touches any part of another person’s body in a sexual way, even through clothes, without that person’s consent.” 2
These two terms most generally differ in that child sexual abuse encompasses a wider variety of acts that can include assault, the showing of pornography to a child, exposing oneself to a child, and voyeurism.
Interpreting the Data
Estimating how many children are being or have ever been sexually abused is problematic. Some of the challenges that are faced include: inconsistent state definitions of child sexual abuse, under and non-reporting, a variety of report receiving/data collecting agencies and how the data is reported.
1. Inconsistent State Definitions of Child Sexual Abuse
There is no single definition of child sexual abuse used currently. States vary in what age is considered a “child” as well as who can legally be held responsible for child sexual abuse.
2. Under and non-reporting
Many cases of child sexual abuse are not reported right away and some are never reported. Therefore, the actual number of children who are or have ever been sexually abused is currently unknown.
3. Report receiving agencies
Depending upon how a state defines child sexual abuse, usually reports will be reported to either local law enforcement or Child Protective Services (CPS). However, many instances of sexual abuse never reach these agencies and are dealt with internally by the organizations and/or individuals involved.
4. Data collecting agencies
There are a number of agencies that collect data on child sexual abuse. The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS), the data collecting system of the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN), gathers information from participating CPS agencies. However, they do not collect data from local law enforcement. This means that current data collecting systems only capture a portion of the total incidents of CSA.
5. How the data is reported
Understanding the scope of child sexual abuse means taking into account both prevalence and incidence rates.
The number of child sexual abuse cases will be reported in one of two ways: incidence or prevalence. “Incidence rates are based on how many children were abused in a single year. Prevalence rates are based on a lifetime or a full childhood, such as what percentage of all children were ever abused.” 3
Data from the CDC in 2006 indicates that 1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men were sexually abused before the age of 18. 4
The data regarding child sexual abuse can be confusing. Consequently, this can lead to inconsistent data reports as shown by the following statistics.

Data: CDC Study, 2006
• According to the publication “Child Maltreatment” published by