147 golestan, valieasr street, Tehran, Iran. Email: hashemi525@yahoo.com
2legal medicine organization, Tehran, Iran.
*Corrrespondence: Email: maryam3023@yahoo.com
According to the definition of WHO, each individual less than 18 years old is regarded as a child. Sexual abuse of young children is seen in all countries. One attempt has been made here to highlight this problem in Tehran.
This study included all cases of sexual-abuses of children in 9 months period All cases had been referred to these five medical centers in Tehran by order of Judicial Authorities as by well as claimant parents. This study had been conducted in cross sectional way via medical examination and questionnaire's and then analyzed statistically with SPSS software.
Concerning the gender of the victims 61.8% were female and 38.2% were male and most frequency of age was between 14 to 18 years old (79.2%). All of the sexual abuses were committed by men and the most frequency for number of times for each case turned out to be once (60%).
From the total number of anal examinations 4 cases had anal laceration 2 cases had anal dilatation and 8 cases had bruise or abrasion and the rest showed no injury (130 cases).
Totally 89 vaginal examination were performed out of which in 46 cases no sign of intercourse was observed and in 43 cases signs of intercourse were observed.
The most cases of sexual abuses were committed by non relatives known to the child (51.6%). As far as the education of parents is concerned the most frequency turned out to be under diploma.
Sexual abuse, child, child abuse, incest
