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Reports & Statistics


  • 1 in 4 girls is sexually abused before the age of 14.
    Source: Hopper, J. (1998). Child Sexual Abuse: Statistics, Research, Resources. Boston, MA Boston University School of Medicine.

  • 1 in 6 boys is sexually abused before the age of 16.
    Source: Hopper, J. (1998). Child Sexual Abuse: Statistics, Research, Resources. Boston, MA Boston University School of Medicine.

  • More than 90% of all sexual abuse victims know their perpetrator. Almost 50% of the offenders are household members and 38% are already acquaintances of the victims.
    Source: US Department of Justice. (1997) and Finkelhor and Ormond. (2001).

  • The average serial child molester has between 360-380 victims in his lifetime.
    Source: South Carolina Forcible Sex Crimes. (1999). Summary, South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, Columbia, SC.

  • Only 12% of all cases of child abuse are reported.
    Source: Hanson, R.F., Resnick, H.S., Saunders, B.E., Kilpatrick, D.G., & Best, C. (1999). Factors Relating to the Reporting of Childhood Sexual Assault. Child Abuse and Neglect, (23) 559-569.

  • 38% of girls are sexually abused before the age of 18.
    16% of boys are sexually abused before the age of 18.
    Source: www.womenofsubstance.org

  • The most common ages of children when sexual abuse occurs are between 8 and 12.
    Source: David Finkelhor et al, A Sourcebook on Child Sexual Abuse, Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 1986

  • 21.6% of women who reported being raped during their lifetime were under age 12 at the time of their first rape. 32.4% of these women were 12-17 years of age. Therefore, over half of all female rape victim/survivors surveyed in this study were under the age of 18 at the time of their first rape.
    Source: Full Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey, (NCJRS) 2000 (www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/183781.pdf)

  • Persons under 18 years of age account for 67% of all sexual assault victimizations reported to law enforcement agencies. Children under 12 years old account for 34% of those cases and children under six years account for 14% of those cases
    Source: Snyder, Howard. "Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement: Victim, Incident, and Offender Characteristics." Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, 2000.

  • 1.8 million of the 22.3 million adolescents in the United States have been sexually assaulted
    Source: Kilpatrick, D.G. and B.E. Saunders "The Prevalence and Consequences of Child Victimization: Summary of a Research Study by Dean Kilpatrick, Ph.D. and Benjamin Saunders, Ph.D." National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, 1997

  • Juveniles are responsible for victimizing 40% of the child sexual assault victims under six years of age.
    Source: Snyder, Howard. "Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement: Victim, Incident, and Offender Characteristics." Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, 2000.

  • Teens 16 to 19 years of age were three and a half times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.
    Source: Rennison, Callie M. "Criminal Victimization 1999: Changes 1998-00 with Trends 1993-99." Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice, August 2000.

  • According to the U.S. Department of Justice, victims of rape and sexual assault report that in nearly 3 out of 4 incidents, the offender was not a stranger. Based on police-recorded incident data, in 90% of the rapes of children younger than 12, the child knew the offender.
    Source: Greenfield, et al, 1997. Sex Offenses and Offenders: An Analysis of Data on Rape and Sexual Assault. United States Department of Justice.

  • Like rape, child molestation is one of the most underreported crimes: only 1-10% are ever disclosed.
    Source: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin

  • 2/3rds of babies born to teenage mothers were fathered by adult men, not the fellow classmates long suspected.
    Source: The Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1996 Based on a California Study

  • Just 14% of child victimizers used a weapon, compared to nearly half of those who victimized adults.
    Source: U.S. Department of Justice, March, 1996 "Child Victimizers: Violent Offenders and Their Victims"

  • The United States has the world's highest rape rate of the countries that publish such statistics. It's 4 times higher than Germany, 13 times higher than England, and 20 times higher than Japan.
    Source: National Victim Center

  • 100 Children are kidnapped by strangers each year in the United States.
    Source: U.S. Department of Justice, 2002

  • 74 percent of abducted children who are murdered are killed within three hours of the abduction. In 80% of the cases, the initial contact between the killer and the victim was within 1/4 mile of the victim's residence, and the majority of cases (57%) were based solely on opportunity.
    Source: Hanfland, Keppel & Weis, Case Management for Missing Children Homicide Investigation: Executive Summary. Olympia, Washington: Office of the Attorney General of Washington and U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, May 1997.


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