The following quotes are just some of those I have accumulated in my travels.
Feel free to post other stats!
Note that if you doubt the accuracy of these statistics (and who doesn’t!), take it up with the authors of the various studies, not me.
Yes, I too have serious concerns about definitions etc. Wait till I start quoting from ‘The Courage to Heal’!
Disclaimer: Quotes can easily be taken out of context. Lord knows I’m probably guilty of that.
If quoting any of these, you should refer back to the source documents to ensure accuracy of both the context and content.
I have also tried to be accurate. If I have made a mistake, just let me know & I’ll be happy to correct it.
1.1 Numbers of Children Abused
“Ministry of Justice statistics show that between 1992 and 1999 there were 13,709 convictions for sex offences against children 16 and younger. This represents 79% of sex offence convictions in that period (between 76-81% in any of those years). 7,903 offences were against children 11 and younger. … Between 1996-2000, male offenders comprised 99.1% of all convicted cases of child sex offending.”
Refer to a speech by Denise Ritchie, family law barrister and National Coordinator for ECPAT NZ Inc, as reported via http://www.familylaw.org.nz
1.2 Percentages of Children Abused
24% of women studied reported pre-adolescent sexual abuse including genital exposure and non-genital fondling.
7.68% of women suffered preadolescent sexual abuse consisting of genital contact / coitus.
Sexual Behaviour of the Human Female – Dr Alfred Kinsey and other, reported in A City Possessed – The Christchurch Civic Creche Case – Lynley Hood
See also Pg 168, An Analysis of the Kinsey Reports on Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male and Female
“A survey of women’s health in Otago, New Zealand (Anderson et al. 1993) found … one in three girls under 16 experiencing some form of sexual abuse”. Note this included “sexual abuse which did not involve physical contact”.
Pg 3, Counselling For Child Abuse – Kathy MacDonald, Ian Lambie, Les Simmonds
“Later a broad study of 1100 school pupils in the Wellington district said that 38 per cent of girls and 12 per cent of boys had experienced unwanted touching [McKenzie, D. 1984. Wellington Rape Crisis Survey]”.
“A more conservative estimate was the Dunedin study of Dr P. Mullen suggesting that one in ten women were able to report childhood sexual abuse [Mullen, P., S. Romans-Clarkson, P. Herbison and W. Walton. 1988. ‘The impact of sexual and physical abuse on women’s mental health’. The Lancet. April].”
“In a survey of Auckland undergraduate university students over half of the 364 women had experienced some form of sexual victimisation and a quarter had been raped or experienced attempted rape [Gavey, N. 1991. ‘Sexual victimisation prevalence among New Zealand university students.’ Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 59 (3) : 464-466.].”
“In Dunedin at the beginning of the 1990’s a survey of 1660 women found that 32 per cent had had some unwanted sexual experience [Anderson, J., and S. Merry. 1992. ‘The New Zealand Scene’. Paper presented at the D-SAC Conference, New Plymouth.] before they turned sixteen, and 20 per cent involved genital contact. In 85 per cent of instances the offender was known to the child. Stepfathers were ten times more likely to abuse children than natural fathers”.
Pg 16, Stopping Child Abuse – How Do We Bring Up New Zealand Children To Be Non-Offenders – Miriam Saphira
“In a survey of 1,100 school pupils in the Wellington district it was found that thirty-eight percent of girls … had experienced at least one incident of unwanted touching”.
Pg 3, For Your Child’s Sake – Miriam Saphira
“About 25% of girls and 20% of boys are sexually abused by the age of 18”
Ken Clearwater of Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse - Friday, 19 May 2000
“The most reliable figured place the incidence of serious sexual abuse of girls under the age of 14 years around 10-15%. Serious sexual abuse consists of experiences that involve physical contact between the victim and offender. This can range from kissing to full intercourse but doesn’t include such experiences as indecent phone calls or indecent exposure.”
Pg 10, Report of the Advisory Committee on the Investigation, Detection and Prosecution of Offences Against Children
“A recent Christchurch Health and Development survey followed 1000 children from birth and found that 7.3% of the girls and 3.4% of the boys reported sexual abuse before their 16th birthday.”
Refer to www.wellingtonstop.co.nz
Refer to Wellington Stop Inc – A Programme for Adult Men Who Sexually Abuse
“Whilst there is continuing controversy about prevalence rates of child sexual abuse, it is generally considered to affect one in four females and one in six males.”
“In the case of child sexual abuse within churches, it is estimated that over eighty five percent of the victims are male children.”
S. 55, Report of the Board of Inquiry, Anglican Diocese of Adelaide (24 May 2004) – [Kornblum J per USA Today (24/7/2002) refers]
“According to Ministry of Justice figures, between 1992 and 1999 there were 13,709 criminal convictions for sexual offences against children 16 and younger in New Zealand. This figure represented 79% of sex offence convictions in that eight-year period (between 76-81% in any one of those years). 7,903 convictions related to children 11 years and younger”.
ECPAT Newsletter, December 2001
“Researchers think that 1 in every 4 girls will be molested before her sixteenth birthday. One out of every 9 boys will be molested”.
The Sexual Abuse of Children – Facts you should know – Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand pamphlet.
1.3 Who Commits This Abuse?
“The abuser, in ninety-six cases out of every hundred reported, is someone the victim knows and trusts.”
Pg 11, Child Sexual Abuse – Confronting The Problem – Freda Briggs
“95% of victims know the offender. (CCPCA, 1992)”
Refer to Wellington Stop – Intervention for Families and Networks of Adults who Sexually Abuse
“Early research has indicated that the vast majority (96-98 per cent) of offenders are male”.
Pg 4, Counselling For Child Abuse – Kathy MacDonald, Ian Lambie, Les Simmonds
“Ninety-six per cent of the abusers were male”.
“Half of the abuse (51%) involved members of the girl’s immediate or extended family”.
“About a fifth of abusers (18%) were father-figures”.
Pg 48, Sexual Abuse Study, NZ Department of Social Welfare – Jane von Dadelszen
“Between 1996-2000 male offenders comprised 99.1% of convicted cases of child sex offending”.
ECPAT Newsletter, December 2001
“89% are heterosexual males”.
The Sexual Abuse of Children – Facts you should know – Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand pamphlet.
“In four out of five situations where children are abused it is by people they know. The abuser may be a parent, a grandparent, a caregiver, brother, sister, neighbour, teacher, doctor, church leader and so on. Often the abuser is in a position of trust and can take advantage of the opportunities that being trusted provides in order to sexually abuse.”
Refer to www.wellingtonstop.co.nz
See also Wellington Stop Inc – A Programme for Adult Men Who Sexually Abuse
“A 1980 New Zealand study (reported by Saphira 1985) found that 89 per cent of sexually abused children had been molested by someone they knew”.
“Nearly half of the offenders were relatives, and nearly a quarter were fathers or stepfathers”.
Pg 4, Counselling For Child Abuse – Kathy MacDonald, Ia
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Read a City possessed. Many of those mentioned were totally debunked
Comment by Alastair — Wed 7th December 2005 @ 11:17 pm
Most of these statistics are hopelessly out of date and come from a time when feminist hysteria was at its peak and unchallenged.
The trick is to get impartial statistics, any stats gathered by women’s groups or government departments that are controlled by the matriarchy are always suspect. Abuse is often defined as including insults and put-downs which broadens the scope of abuse but is not something that is exclusive to either gender.
I notice in 1991 that half the 364 women surveyed at Auckland University are supposed to have suffered “some form of sexual victimisation” and 91 of them are supposed to have been raped or have been subjected to attempted rape. This is a truly alarming figure. Who were the male students reponsible? Why haven’t they been held to account? Why was the university failing to protect our daughters and sisters? Or was it just another anti-male survey with loaded questions that define a sideways glance as attempted rape?
Comment by Alex G — Fri 9th December 2005 @ 8:00 am
Well it seems that anybody can invent statistics - 73.45323452245 % of people know that.
Wildly varying statistics is obvious proof that they are fake.
I guess people could start inventing statistics on Male abuse by females, but I’m sure as Males we have higher moral standards about this than females.
These pathetic radical feminists don’t bat an eyelid as they sink to the utmost depths of immorality in an attempt to justify their flawed beliefs with humourous statistics.
Comment by Moose — Sat 10th December 2005 @ 11:31 pm
I’m keeping a scoresheet of reported female violence. So far, 2 weeks, in my region, 7 incidences. These range from Murder, Lesbian Rape, unlawful sexual connection with a 13 year old boy down to common assault
Comment by Alastair — Sun 11th December 2005 @ 12:53 am
Actually I agree with all the above.
We should also keep a scoresheet of the anti-mail PC brigade -father christmas hysteria, air NZ panic, - as one paper said yesterday - what next - men not allowed alone in parks?
But the alarming thing about the books on CSA is that they all still quote these wonderful stats, without any critical analysis.
For example, when you consider some include looking at someone sexually as sexual abuse - how can a young kei ever KNOW that they have been looked at sexually?
Scarier still is the PC crap they get at school about keeping safe - feeling ‘yucky’ when someone hugs you …
But having a hnady list of stats, no matter how biased or blatantly untrue they may be is actually useful - when someone quoes the old ‘1 in 4 girls’, you can actually argue back with all the contradictory ones.
And yes - I am familiar with the article by Lynley Hood debunking the CCC (Ellis) case.
Cheers all.
Comment by Al D Rado — Mon 12th December 2005 @ 7:45 am