Sexual Violence Against Children Is A Global Problem But Few Get Help [NPR.org]

Samantha Sangenito 6/8/154:00 AM

A new survey from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that sexual violence against children is a global problem.

Seven countries were surveyed from 2007 to 2013. The first was Swaziland, which wanted to assess and address the problem. The rate of sexual violence against girls was 36.7 percent. Additional countries asked to be surveyed as well. Young people from the age of 13 to 24 were interviewed, with a range of 1,000 to 2,000 for each gender.

In most countries, more than 1 in 4 girls and more than 1 in 10 boys said they'd experienced sexual violence.

To learn more, we spoke to Dr. Steven Sumner, lead author of the report on the data and a medical epidemiologist at CDC's Division of Violence Prevention.

[For more of this story, written by Marc Silver, go to http://www.npr.org/sections/go...lem-but-few-get-help]

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