There is no accurate figure regarding the number of children who aresexually abused but there is no doubt that it will be significantly morethan the number of cases reported to protection agencies and the numberof perpetrators that are prosecuted.
The introduction deals with public misconceptions and myths includingthe issue of women offenders. Research in 1996 indicated that 20 to 25per cent of child sexual abusers are female. And recently publishedcourt sentencing data for England and Wales in 2004 showed that forsexual crime (which includes adult and child victims) the number ofconvicted females was 1.7 per cent of the total.
Child sexual abusers are profiled and the book reveals that children arerarely victims of predatory child sex offenders but are predominantlyabused by family members and other carers or persons known to them.
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