Child and Adolescent Sexual Abuse: The Case of Campos dos Goytacazes-RJ-Brasils

Derli Rodrigues, Universidade Cândido Mendes
Elzira L. Oliveira, Universidade Cândido Mendes

This paper had as a subject the sexual abuse suffered by children and adolescents from Campos dos Goytacazes and is based on collected data from a social program managed by the Municipal Foundation of the Infancy and Youth from the city of Campos of the Goytacazes - RJ/Brasil. It was also analyzed the abuser and accuser relationship with the victim, the family structure and duration by the means of survival analyzes. The results lead to the conclusion that, along all the years of research, sexual abuse was a more common problem than all the other types of violence together, which justifies this paper. It is also important to emphasize that the number of sexual abuse cases against boys lead the statistics. Although sexual abuse occurs at all ages it can be inferred that this type of violence is more predominant among 10 to 14 year-old children.