Child sexual abuse (CSA) is an insidious crime that can destroy the lives of innocent children and leave their families devastated. The topic of child sexual abuse is, at best, a difficult subject to discuss and at worst, a horrifying one. <br><br>Child sexual abuse has been defined as:<br>"Child sexual abuse involves any sexual activity with a child where consent is not or cannot be given. This includes sexual contact that is accomplished by force or threat of force, regardless of the age of the participants, and all sexual contact between an adult and a child, regardless of whether there is deception or the child understands the sexual nature of the activity. Sexual contact between an older and a younger child also can be abusive if there is a significant disparity in age, development, or size, rendering the younger child incapable of giving informed consent. The sexually abusive acts may include sexual penetration, sexual touching, or non-contact sexual acts such as exposure or voyeurism."<br><br>The following is a representative list of risk factors related specifically to child sexual abuse within youth-serving organizations. Note that the emphasis is on "unsupervised" access to children in a variety of ways.<br><br>* Unsupervised contact with children<br>* Transportation of children<br>* Long term contact with children in live-in situation<br>* Extreme physical exertion in a remote setting with children<br>* Visit to children's homes<br>* Helping children change clothes, bathe, or with other personal activities<br>* Coaching sports in which physical contact between adult and child is routine<br>* Delivery of meals to children's homes<br><br>While many of the YSO's have undertaken a number of steps to keep the children safe, there are many such organizations that have not faced the facts about the profound risks to children that exist every day.
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Norman D. Bates. Preventing Child Sexual Abuse In Youth-Serving Organizations
Introduction
Interpreting the Data
I. The Scope of the Problem
Characteristics of Offenders and Victims
II. Guidelines for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse
A. Pre-Employment Screening and Background Investigations
B. Supervision of Staff and Volunteers—Policies and Procedures
C. Reporting Sexual Abuse
D. Supervision—Physical Design of Facilities
Concluding Remarks: Where do we go from here?
Notes
Appendix 1: State Examples of Mandatory Reporters. California
Florida
Illinois
Massachusetts
New York
Texas
Appendix 2: State Examples of Penalties for Failure to Report and False Reporting. California
Florida
Illinois
Massachusetts
New York
Texas
References
Additional Sources
About the Authors
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Child sexual abuse (CSA) is an insidious crime that can destroy the lives of innocent children and leave their families devastated. The topic of child sexual abuse is, at best, a difficult subject to discuss and at worst, a horrifying one.
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“They met with Jerry on Monday and concluded that there was no criminal behavior and the matter was closed as an investigation. He was a little emotional and expressed concern as to how this might have adversely affected the child. I think the matter has been appropriately investigated and I hope it is now behind us.”19
On the contrary, this matter was not behind them. Sandusky continued to sexually abuse boys. These officials faced a similar problem but again failed to go through the proper reporting channels in 2001 when more allegations were made against him.
