National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC)
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions on Child Abuse and Neglect
** - In 1996 - Every 37 seconds another child is reported missing in the United States. 850,000 per year - **
- An estimated 18.6% of inmates serving time in State prisons in 1991 for violent crimes had been convicted of a crime against a victim under age 18!
- 1 in 5 violent offenders serving time in a State prison reported having victimized a child!
- 7 in 10 offenders with child victims reported that they were imprisioned for rape or sexual assault!
- Violent child-victimizers were substantially more likely than those with adult victims to have been physically or sexually abused when they were children, though the majority of violent offenders, regardless of vitims age, did not have a history of such abuse!
- 3 in 4 child victims of violence were female!
- For the vast majority of child victimizers in State prison, the victim was someone they knew before the crime: (1) a third had committed their crime against their own child (2) about half had a relationship with the victim as a friend, acquaintance, or relative other than offspring (3) about 1 in 7 reported the victim to have been a stranger to them.
- Three-quarters of the violent victimizations of children took place in either the victim's home or the offender's home!
- Children under the age of 18 accounted for 11% of all murder victims in the US in 1994. Nearly half of the 2,660 child victims were between ages 15 and 17. About 1 in 5 child victims were known to be killed by another child!
- Between 1976 and 1994 an estimated 37,000 children were murdered!
- Half of all child murders in 1994 were committed with a handgun; about 7 in 10 victims age 15 to 17 were killed with a handgun.
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