Sexual Abuse Statistics

• Approximately 30% of sexual assault cases are reported to authorities.
• 9.3% of cases of maltreatment of children in 2012 were classified as sexual abuse.
• 62,939 cases of child sexual abuse were reported in 2012.
• According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ National Criminal Victimization Survey, in 2012, there were 346,830 reported rapes or sexual assaults of persons 12 years or older.
• In 2010, 12% of rapes and sexual assaults involved a weapon.
• In 2010, 25% of the female victims of rape/sexual assault were victimized by strangers.
• According to “Have Sexual Abuse and Physical Abuse Declined Since the 1990s?” an article released by the Crimes Against Children Research Center in 2012:
  • There was a 56% decline in physical abuse and a 62% decline in sexual abuse from 1992 to 2010.
  • Despite some skepticism of reporting methods by various agencies, declines in child physical and sexual abuse since the 1990s, as reported to National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS), reflect a true decline in prevalence.
  The decline in sexual abuse in NCANS was consistent with other data sources

Victims of Sexual Abuse

Adults About 20 million out of 112 million women (18.0%) in the United States have been raped during their lifetime.

• Only 16% of all rapes were reported to law enforcement.
• In 2006 alone, 300,000 college women (5.2%) were raped.
• Among college women, about 12% of rapes were reported to law enforcement.
• A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey on the national prevalence of intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and stalking found:
  • 81% of women who experienced rape, stalking, or physical violence by an intimate partner reported significant short- or long-term impacts.
  • About 35% of women who were raped as minors also were raped as adults, compared to 14% of women without an early rape history.
  • 28% of male rape victims were first raped when they were 10 years old or younger.

Child/Teen Victims

• In a 2012 maltreatment report, of the victims who were sexually abused, 26% were in the age group of 12–14 years and 34% were younger than 9 years.
• Approximately 1.8 million adolescents in the United States have been the victims of sexual assault.
• Research conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that approximately 1 in 6 boys and 1 in 4 girls are sexually abused before the age of 18.
• 35.8% of sexual assaults occur when the victim is between the ages of 12 and 17.
• 82% of all juvenile victims are female.
• 69% of the teen sexual assaults reported to law enforcement occurred in the residence of the victim, the offender, or another individual.
• Teens 16 to 19 years of age were 3 ½ times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault.
• Approximately 1 in 5 female high school students report being physically and/or sexually abused by a dating partner.

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