The analysis of transcripts of interviews, with both children who were victims of abuse and those accused of carrying out harm, reveals at least one reference to an act of sexual violence such as coercion, humiliation and physical aggression in 50 per cent of 379 testimonies.
The most common act reported was the use of derogatory names.
Some 35 per cent of transcripts included a reference to an act of physical aggression, such as slapping, strangulation or punching.
A manual review of 32 transcripts also found instances of both police and children drawing direct links between the incident of abuse and the abuser’s exposure to pornography, with two children who were harmed stating they had been treated “like a porn star”.
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