Seriously ????

[transam]

On the radio BBC this morning

500,000 ( half a million ) children are abused every year ?? That’s sexually assaulted and raped !!!!!!

Dunno how they arrived at this figure but that’s was the reported !!!!!

 

[motorbiking]

I'm not aware of the statistic, but could it include under age sexual activity?

 

[King Billy]

On the radio BBC this morning

500,000 ( half a million ) children are abused every year ?? That’s sexually assaulted and raped !!!!!!

Dunno how they arrived at this figure but that’s was the reported !!!!!

It might not be an annual amount.
NSPC suggest a figure of 1 in 20 children have been sexually abused.

We don't know exactly how many children in the UK experience sexual abuse. However, research with 2,275 young people aged 11-17 about their experiences of sexual abuse suggests around 1 in 20 children in the UK have been sexually abused.

With about 4.35 million children in UJK

There are approximately 14.35 million children (aged under 18) living in the United Kingdom

That would suggest that about 720,000 children under 18 in the UK have been sexually abused.

 

[transam]

I'm not aware of the statistic, but could it include under age sexual activity?

Dunno they did not mention that ????

Just said sexual assault and rape ??!!!

Apparently 1 in 5 girls

1 in 10 are boys ???

Discussed / reported in BBC woman’s hour

 

[King Billy]

Dunno they did not mention that ????

Just said sexual assault and rape ??!!!

Apparently 1 in 5 girls

1 in 10 are boys ???

Discussed / reported in BBC woman’s hour

On the radio BBC this morning

500,000 ( half a million ) children are abused every year ?? That’s sexually assaulted and raped !!!!!!

Dunno how they arrived at this figure but that’s was the reported !!!!!

The figure appears to originate from this report:

Best estimates suggest that 500,000 children are sexually abused every year.

And do include under age abusers.

4228 group-based offences identified by the CSE Taskforce,

Assuming 'Group based' offences refer to Asian Grooming gangs. For the sake of argument let's assume a figure of 5,000 victims of Asian Grooming gangs, who were the other abusers of the 495,000 victims?
We don't hear much about them. I wonder why................

 

[motorbiking]

For me it's not helpful to include young people doing things that they cannot legally consent to, but want to do, so long as they aren't being groomed by adults. Two 14 or 15 year olds getting to 3rd or 4th base, isn't the same as adults abusing kids.

 

[King Billy]

For me it's not helpful to include young people doing things that they cannot legally consent to, but want to do,

If under-age children are doing what they want to do, they're not likely to report it as abuse.

 

[morqthana]

For me it's not helpful to include young people doing things that they cannot legally consent to, but want to do, so long as they aren't being groomed by adults. Two 14 or 15 year olds getting to 3rd or 4th base, isn't the same as adults abusing kids.

No, but it is, technically assault/abuse/rape because the law says that people that age cannot give consent. It also says that if they share "indecent" photos with each other that's an offence.

Then there's this: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/jul/31/childprotection.society

DISCLAIMER - I don't know if anything has changed wrt that, but I'm sure I read about a young person ending up on the register for consensual non-abusive, non-coercive, non-exploitative acts more recently than 25 years ago.

 

[morqthana]

If under-age children are doing what they want to do, they're not likely to report it as abuse.

Somebody else might.

 

[transam]

I'm not aware of the statistic, but could it include under age sexual activity?

Fair point