The Effect Surrounding Sexual Child Abuse

Thursday, May 7, 2009

“Sexual Abuse on Children”

1. What are the effects on a child’s body after sexual abuse has occurred?

2. Who are most likely to be the perpetrators?
3. What kind of mental effect can child abuse have on a child?
4. How can sexual abuse be identified?
5. What kind of behavior do children display after being sexually abused?

Possible questions. Number 1 is my essential question.

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key terms

Anxiety: nervousness or agitation, often about something that is going to happen
Depression: a state of unhappiness and hopelessness
Sexual molestation: a term defining offenses in which an adult engages in non-penetrative activity with a minor for the purpose of sexual gratification, for example exposing a minor to pornography or to the sexual act of others
Sexual exploitation: defines the offenses in which an adult victimizes a minor for advancement, sexual gratification, or profit, for example prostituting a child an creating or trafficking in child pornography
Sexual grooming: defines the social conduct of a potential child sex offender who seeks to make a minor more accepting of their advances, for example in an online chat room.
Hebephilia: a form of pedophiles that are attracted to post-pubertal teenagers (14-17)
Infantophilia: a rare form of pedophiles whose main interest are in children 24 months and younger.
Abrasion: an area on the skin, or some other surface of the body that has been damaged by scraping or rubbing
Intracrural Intercourse: the act of rubbing the penis between the labia of the female without entering the vagina
Pornography: the production or sale of sexually explicit films magazines or other sexual materials.
Recidivism: a tendency to relapse into a previous undesirable type of behavior, especially crime
Incest: sexual activity between two people who are considered, for moral or genetic reasons, too closely related to have such a relationship. Incest is regarded as a serious taboo in almost every society, although cultures differ as to the extent to which marriages are allowed
Neurological Damage: changes in the brain functioning .
Minor: somebody who is not legally an adult.
Pedophiles: an adult who has sexual desire for children or who has committed a crime by having sex with a child.
Indecent exposure: the criminal offense of deliberately displaying part of the body, usually the genitals, to somebody else in public
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder: an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more terrifying that threatened or caused grave physical harm