1. Claim: Sexual assault to children is caused by people who surround them and know the child well. According to the organization of Darkness to Light End Child Abuse which causes awareness to prevent sexual assault states that “children living without either parent (foster children) are 10 times more likely to be sexually abused than children that live with both biological parents”. This reading also states that children who live a separated parents and have someone living with them: they are 20 times more likely to be sexual abuse than children living with both parents. According to a research paper called Youth Victimization: Prevalence and Implication it states that 3 in 4 reported that the assault was committed by someone they knew well. Around 33% sexual assault was committed by friends, and more than 20% were from strangers. Another 20% were committed by a family member, including fathers or stepfathers, brothers or step brothers, sisters or stepsisters, grandparents, and other child relatives. This demonstrate that sexual assault are committed by relative or people that know the child well.
- "Sexual assaults on children are most likely to occur at 8 a.m., 12 p.m. and between 3 and 4 p.m. For older children, aged 12 to 17, there is also a peak in assaults in the late evening hours." stated the organization of Darkness to light.
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Sexual assaults occurred either within the victim’s home or in the victim’s neighborhood .
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