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Transmitted Diseases
• Over 50 percent of male victims of sexual abuse
have experienced anal penetration.
• Other types of sexual activity, including oralgenital
contact and fondling, occur in 20 to 50
percent of victims of sexual abuse.
• Children who are sexually abused by known
assailants usually experience less physical
trauma, including genital trauma, than victims of
assaults by strangers because such trauma might
arouse suspicion that abuse is occurring.
The U.S. Justice Department did their due diligence in
conducting research on STDs over the past two decades.
Leader in the field of STDs for law enforcement to use in
the investigation of child sexual abuse allegations, the
above material is excellent not only for law enforcement,
but for the public.
http://criminologyjust.blogspot.com/2011/09/children-withsexually-transmitted.html
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Children with Sexually
Transmitted Diseases, Part II
By Lawrence W. Daly
September 14, 2011
Who should children turn to when they feel the physical
pain which is associated with sexually transmitted
diseases (STDs) Since most small children do not have
the understanding of what is happening to them, they may
not complain to others about the pain. Once the physical
symptoms lead the child victim to their family
practitioner or the emergency room, the identification of
what is happening to the child will now put things into
perspective. The non-abusing adult who receives the
complaint from the child victim will generally have some
explaining to do with law enforcement and child
protective services about how the child victim contracted
the STDs.
Law enforcement will play a major role in identifying,
apprehending and prosecuting the sexual offender who
transmitted the STDs to the child victim. The alleged
sexual offender will find it difficult to deny transmitting
the disease to the child victim. The ability to obtain body
fluids from the sexual offender is vital to identifying that
the child victim and the sexual offender are carrying the
same STDs in their bodies.
-30- Traditional African Clinic October 2011
Before the HIV began killing individuals in the 1980’s
the medical personnel dealt with two main STDs,
gonorrhea and syphilis. These were the standard sexual
diseases that came about for many reasons. However,
when the child victim was found to be carrying one of
these two STDs, law enforcement and child protective
services took the medical findings to an emergent
investigative techniques and methods.
In the initial phases of the child sexual abuse
allegations, law enforcement and child protective
services must interview the non-abuser adult for several
reasons:
• To identify all men and women who have had
any type of physical contact with the child
victim.
• To identify if the child victim was ever out of the
non-abuser adult’s presence; what dates and
times
• To identify what non-abuser adult may have
noticed upon the return of the child victim i.e.
child seemed upset; sexual offender was anxious,
nervous and avoided eye contact and etc.
• To identify who was present at the residence
during the time the child victim was with the
alleged sexual offender.
• To identify who the child first disclosed that
she/he had been sexually abused and ‘exactly’
what the child said.
• To identify when the child begin demonstrating
pain in the genitalia and anal area and what the
child said about what he/she believed was going
on. Of course this would be difficult to ascertain
with children of a younger age i.e. four and
under.
Medical personnel can assist law enforcement in
ascertaining when they believe the onset of the STDs
was; the type of STDs the child victim has; and the signs
of the STDs that should have been recognizable to the
non-abuser adult. The medical personnel can also help
law enforcement with detailing how the STDs were
transmitted and provide a declaration for the court in the
obtaining of a search and arrest warrant for the alleged
sexual offender.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, n.d., “Children might be at higher risk for
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