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Child sexual abuse is a crime most commonly committed by men (95% of the abusers are male) against both girls and boys.
Children are most likely to be sexually abused by someone they know and trust or by someone in authority than by a stranger. 85% of those incidents are caused by family members, neighbours or friends, persons who are often not suspicious at all, because they just seem to "like" the child. They do not necessarily look dirty, weird or creepy or act suspiciously.
The sad thing is, that often the own father is responsible for the abuse, a person who should take care of his child.
A lot of abusers, who are no family-members are not easy to identify. They often have a position of status -they go to church, have a regular job and are active in community. They may seem perfectly respectable and nice and extremely clever at worming their way into your confidence so that you trust them alone with your children.
The maltreatment of children occurs within every neighbourhood, class and racial background, although it is now known that it doesn't occur equally over all groups.
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