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Most children provoke their abuse-especially girls who are sexually abused.

RUNNING HEAD : SEXUALLY ABUSED CHILDREN DO NOT PROVOKE THEIR OWN ABUSE

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Sexually Abused Children do not provoke their own Abuse

Sexual abuse is one of the many issues that have been prevalent in society especially amongst the youth . Victims of sexual abuse choose no gender and age , meaning just about anybody could be victims of this abuse , but today the prevalent victims of sexual abuse are young girls (Hackbarth , 2002 . This is because often offenders choose victims that

are weak and are vulnerable , so that they could easily capture their victim , the young and napve nature of young girls makes them the perfect targets of offenders ( Entrusted to our care : how to protect our children from sexual abuse , n .d . One concern regarding sexual abuse is the issue that most sexual abuse suspects blame their victims for the abuse . To say that the victims themselves are the perpetrators of their own abuse is only an escape strategy of abusers to bail out from the consequences and punishment that they would get . One of the main reason why some abusers use this reason is that the misconception of abusers of the natural or normal sexual behavior that a child exhibits

The sexual development of a child could be seen even at the early days of life . As early as toddlerhood , children become curious about their genitals (Rich , 2002 . It is by the time children get...

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