Johnson T C
Children's Institute International, Los Angeles, CA 90005.
Child Abuse Negl. 1988;12(2):219-29. doi: 10.1016/0145-2134(88)90030-0.
While the seriousness of sexual abuse by adolescents is finally beginning to receive adequate attention from the professional community, the existence of child perpetrators is largely dismissed and denied. Forty-seven boys between the ages of 4 and 13 are described who have molested children younger than themselves. Coercion was involved in all of the cases included in this study. These children had been treated in a program especially designed for child perpetrators at Children's Institute International in Los Angeles. Prior to their own sexually abusive behaviors, 49% of these boys had been sexually abused and 19% physically abused. The children all knew the people who victimized them. These male child perpetrators all knew the children they molested. In 47% of the cases the sexual abuse was of a sibling. The average number of victims of these children was 2.1 with a range of 1 to 7. The mean age at the time of perpetration was 8 years, 9 months. The mean age of the victims of these children was 6 years, 9 months. There was a history of sexual and physical abuse in the majority of the families of these children, as well as a history of substance abuse. This population is compared to adolescent perpetrators.
虽然青少年性虐待问题的严重性终于开始受到专业人士的充分关注，但儿童施虐者的存在在很大程度上被忽视和否认。本文描述了47名年龄在4至13岁之间的男孩，他们曾猥亵比自己年幼的儿童。本研究纳入的所有案例都涉及胁迫行为。这些儿童曾在洛杉矶国际儿童研究所专为儿童施虐者设计的项目中接受治疗。在实施性虐待行为之前，这些男孩中有49%曾遭受性虐待，19%曾遭受身体虐待。这些儿童都认识侵害他们的人。这些男性儿童施虐者都认识他们猥亵的儿童。在47%的案例中，性虐待的对象是兄弟姐妹。这些儿童的受害者平均人数为2.1人，范围在1至7人之间。实施虐待行为时的平均年龄为8岁9个月。这些儿童受害者的平均年龄为6岁9个月。这些儿童的大多数家庭都有性虐待和身体虐待的历史，以及药物滥用的历史。将这一群体与青少年施虐者进行了比较。
