Children and Youth Sexual Abuse

These activities can be classified into physical contact and non-physical contact. For physical contact, the activities include; kissing, masturbation, penetration (Oral sex or rape) and touching on parts outside of clothing. Non-contact activities include; watching sexual activities, encouraging children and the youth to behave in sexually unsuitable ways. Child sexual abuse is one of the most widespread forms of violence, regardless of gender, culture, race, class or nation (Annie, 2008). Therefore, this problem of sexual child abuse is personal and pervasive than most people would believe. S. , five children die each day from injuries related to child abuse. In New York, accusations of sexual abuse at Horace Mann, an exclusive preparatory school in the Bronx, led to law enforces opening hotlines and former teacher at the school to admit to having had sexual interactions with student’s decades ago (Erica, 2012).