Citation

de Oliveira Aded NL, de Oliveira SF, da Silva Dalcin BL, de Moraes TM, Cavalcanti MT. J. Clin. Forensic Med. 2006; 14(4): 216-220.

Affiliation

Science in Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IPUB/UFRJ), Department of Pathology of the Medical Science Center of the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), Rua Voluntarios da Patria 236/203 – Botafogo.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.jcfm.2006.07.006

PMID

17027321

Abstract

Physical and/or sexual abuse, negligence, and psychological abuse against children and adolescents, constitute a socially important syndrome, demanding preventive public policies and rules for its eradication. Sexual abuse, as a troublesome occurrence, or even its mere presumption, does not regularly undergo official notification. We have examined legal investigative registers at the Instituto Medico-Legal do Rio de Janeiro - Sede set up from January to March 2000, including women, children and adolescents, with medico-legal histories suggestive of sexual assault. From a sample of 1419 cases, we selected those involving vaginal coitus or other libidinous practices, with an upper age limit of 17 years, reducing our sample to 44 subjects. 84.09% of the assaults occurred between ages 0 and 14 years. In 62.36% of the studied cases there was no mention about perpetrators. Material for laboratory researches had not been collected in 84.09% of the cases. There is any lesions in 70.45% of the sample.

Language: en