Christian Cindy W
The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
J Child Sex Abus. 2011 Sep;20(5):505-20. doi: 10.1080/10538712.2011.607424.
The medical examination of the sexually abused child may have evidentiary, medical, and therapeutic purposes, and the timing of the examination requires consideration of each of these objectives. In cases of acute sexual assault, emergent examinations may be needed to identify injury, collect forensic evidence, and provide infection and pregnancy prophylaxis. Alternately, most sexually abused children are not identified immediately after assault, and the timing of the examination needs to balance physical and emotional issues with the availability of qualified examiners. In all cases, the best interests of the child should be paramount.
对遭受性虐待儿童的医学检查可能具有证据、医疗和治疗目的，检查的时机需要考虑到每一个目标。在急性性侵犯案件中，可能需要进行紧急检查以确定损伤情况、收集法医证据，并提供感染和怀孕预防措施。另外，大多数遭受性虐待的儿童在受虐后不会立即被发现，检查的时机需要在身体和情感问题与合格检查人员的可获得性之间取得平衡。在所有情况下，儿童的最大利益都应是首要考虑因素。
