Child Maltreatment and Child Sexual Abuse at Sunprasittihiprasong Hospital during 2012-2014

Abstract

          The retrospective study among the children who had been diagnosed as maltreatment involving abuse and neglect and being protected by law, was performed to assess scope of the problems, the abused children’s information, and the relationship of the perpetrator to the child at Sunpasitthiprasong Hospital, Ubon Ratchathani during 2012-2014. Data from One-stop Service Crisis Center (OSCC) were collected. It was found that there
were a child offended number of 232 cases, of which almost all of them were female (93.97%). On the whole, the child maltreatment was mostly sexual abuse of 77.16% nearly all were in female (177 : 2 ), followed by physical abuse (19.40%), which was found more in females as well (34 : 11). While the psychological abuse and neglect were found in less proportion, only 3.02% and 0.43%, respectively. The age of children were mostly more than 10 years to 18 years, which accounted for 82.33% of all abused children, including children who had been sexually and physically abused. The perpetrator’s relationship to the child vary according to the type of offenses against children. For the child psychological abuse, the majority of perpetrator was found to be the biological parent of the child. Child physical abuses were chiefly carried out by father, boyfriend/girlfriend and strangers. And most perpetrators of child sexual abuse were boyfriend/girlfriend, acquaintances, strangers, and relatives, respectively.