• Sexual abuse is the most concealed, distressful and controversial form of child abuse and occurs more often than statistics reveal.

• Victims of sexual abuse are both male and female, as are offenders.

• Most experts believe that 90% of offenders are someone the child and family knows.

• Sexual abuse happens in all races, ethnic groups, socio-economic groups, ages, and neighborhoods.

• Sexual abuse can be in the form of touching and non-touching (exhibitionism).

• In the United States, a child is sexually abused every two minutes.
  (Senator Christopher Dodd
  founder of Children’s Caucus)

All suspected cases of child abause should be immediately reported to DCFS at 1-800-25-ABUSE