According to the force, which individually analysed and profiled just under 400 offences and perpetrators of domestic violence, children are victims in nine per cent of such cases.
Children were in the house during 31 per cent of domestic violence sexual assaults, and in 10 per cent of rape cases a child witnessed the offence.
When domestic violence "serious assaults" occurred (including bodily harm and attempted murder), children were in the house in 23 per cent of cases and in 14 per cent they witnessed the assault.
Detective Inspector Wendy Newman, staff officer to the Met's head of child protection, said the best way to prevent children being victims or witnesses of domestic violence was "by educating and supporting parents".
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