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del.icio.us Digg It!  new Last update - 10:53 13/12/2006 2,000 complaints of sexual abuse filed by children under 12 in past year By Ruth Sinai, Haaretz Correspondent The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel received nearly 2,000 complaints of sexual abuse in the past year from children under the age of 12, and nearly 2,500 from teenagers aged 13-18. In over half of the 9,000 new cases the crisis center dealt with this past year the victims were minors. In 60% of the cases involving children under the age of 12, the abuse included incest while 17% involved rape and 19% indecent acts. The report states that in 72% of the cases involving children under the age of 12 the assaults occurred in either the victim or the perpetrator's residence, while 12% took place inside educational institutions. As much as 90% of the victims were assaulted by someone they knew. Advertisement These findings, which were organized as part of a report by the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel called "Not in our school?", will be presented on Wednesday to Education Minister Yuli Tamir. These assaults stem from "the innocent worldview of children, which creates an absolute trust in adults, without the ability to resist forcefully", the report reads, citing articles and victims' accounts of abuse. Even at the later ages, from 13 to 18, around 80% of the perpetrators are known to the victim. As the ages of the victims rise, the percentage of cases involving incest drops, while those involving rape rises. In cases where the victim is between 13 and 18 years old, 41% involve rape, and 7% group rape. Incest was reported in 20% of the cases for this age group. In this group, 17% of the assaults took place in educational institutions, of these, 11% were in religious yeshivas. The editors of the report attribute the rise in cases of sexual assault against minors to the exposure of teenagers to "non-normative sexual behavior" on the internet and the media, and the weakening influence of parents and teachers as authority figures. Bookmark to del.icio.us Aliyah from Iran A group of 40 new immigrants from Iran touched down in Israel on Tuesday. Race to White House Top Republican candidate Mike Huckabee supports dialogue with Iran.   1.   RApe is an IsRAeli phenomena! 11:44  |  Asa 13/12/06   2.   Reply to Asa # 1 12:39  |  Simone 13/12/06   3.   Sexually Abusesed Children 13:05  |  BTA 13/12/06   4.   I agree with you Asa 13:24  |  Hadar 13/12/06   5.   the reason not much happens 13:44  |  matt 13/12/06   6.   Reply to Simone 13:48  |  Hadar 13/12/06   7.   child abuse 14:29  |  charles 13/12/06   8.   Unbelievable! 14:35  |  Victor Smolinsky 13/12/06   9.   Israel - Depraved to its core 15:25  |  Nadiya 13/12/06   10.   holy Moses 15:30  |  nehemia dB 13/12/06   11.   Blaming the victim? 16:12  |  Dani Reiss 13/12/06   12.   Asa is right 16:20  |  Dani Reiss 13/12/06   13.   Welcome in Sodom and Gomorrha haven LOL 16:20  |  Yankelowitz (NoJoke) 13/12/06   14.   Please correct my previous post : 20 times and not 5 ! 16:26  |  Yankelowitz (amazed) 13/12/06   15.   Abuse of children is a WORLD wide problem! 16:41  |  T A Sheppard 13/12/06   16.   What ticks me off the most is 17:14  |  Guy From NYC 13/12/06   17.   Only In The Chosen Land 17:21  |  kooskoos 13/12/06   18.   Apply the penalties 23:03  |  hollingsworth 13/12/06   19.   To # 2 Simone : This is NOT true !!! 01:48  |  Yankelowitz (annoyed 14/12/06   20.   Educated guess on whats going on. 08:39  |  noneedtoknow 26/12/07

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