Markwei Ummu, Osei-Hwedie Kwaku
a University of Professional Studies , Accra , Ghana.
b Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre , Accra , Ghana.
J Child Sex Abus. 2019 May-Jun;28(4):472-488. doi: 10.1080/10538712.2019.1581869. Epub 2019 Mar 12.
Child sexual abuse is increasingly becoming an issue of concern in most societies across the globe, including Ghana. This is a phenomenological study that sought to describe the lived experiences of victims of child sexual abuse in Ghana, using the Ga community as a case study. Purposive and snowball sampling techniques were used to identify 17 sexually abused children in the Ga Community. Using the interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), four main themes described the experiences of the victims: (a) forced sex (b) incest (c) joleying and (d) transactional sex. The findings illustrate the different circumstances in which children were sexually abused in the community studied. It also presents socio-cultural factors that normalizes the sexual abuse of children in the Ga Community. These findings underline the need for effective preventive programs and community interventions to protect children and support victims of child sexual abuse.
儿童性虐待在包括加纳在内的全球大多数社会中日益成为一个令人关切的问题。这是一项现象学研究，旨在以加社区为例，描述加纳儿童性虐待受害者的生活经历。采用目的抽样和滚雪球抽样技术，在加社区确定了17名遭受性虐待的儿童。运用解释现象学分析（IPA），四个主要主题描述了受害者的经历：（a）强迫性行为（b）乱伦（c）乔利（joleying）和（d）交易性行为。研究结果说明了在所研究的社区中儿童遭受性虐待的不同情况。它还呈现了使加社区儿童性虐待常态化的社会文化因素。这些发现强调了制定有效预防方案和社区干预措施以保护儿童并支持儿童性虐待受害者的必要性。
