Abstract:

In this study, 15 studies retrospectively examining children who were subjected to forensic evaluation for sexual abuse were reviewed and some of these data were subjected to systematic analysis. Some data of the researches were collected according to the same criteria. From the data collected some inferences have been made about the ratio of sex of the children who were sexually abused and the most frequent psychiatric diagnoses of these children, the identity of the perpetrator of the abuse, the perpetrator's being of singular person or a plural persons and if the sexual abuse is once or repeated. According to the analysis, girls are exposed to more sexual abuse than boys. The average age of sexually abused boys is lower than that of girls. Of the 1740 cases, 354 (20. 34%) of the perpetrators were stranger, 1386 (79.66%) were acquaintances, 177 (10.17%) were boyfriends /partners, 89 (5.11%) were friends /relatives. Of the 1922 cases, 257 (13.37%) were incest. Sexual abuse occurred repeatedly in 466 (40.5%) of 1151 cases. Of the 829 cases, 111 (13.38%) had more than one perpetrator. Of the 1489 cases, 1027 had a psychiatric diagnosis. The rate of psychological disorder is 1226 (63.22%) in 1939 cases.

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