Winters Georgia M, Jeglic Elizabeth L
Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, New York, USA.
J Child Sex Abus. 2024 Nov;33(8):1066-1099. doi: 10.1080/10538712.2024.2444636. Epub 2024 Dec 31.
Research has shown child sexual abuse (CSA) within youth-serving organizations (YSOs) often went undetected for decades, which may in part be due to the use of sexual grooming behaviors. One such YSO is the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), with nearly 100,000 individuals alleging CSA within this organization. This study aimed to describe the characteristics of CSA within the BSA and the presence of sexual grooming behaviors as described by the Sexual Grooming Model. Files ( = 156) were coded from a public database of volunteers who were expelled from BSA due to suspicions of CSA from the 1960s through 1990s. Results provided an overview of who perpetrated and experienced CSA, as well as characteristics of the abuse itself. There was evidence of sexual grooming in many cases; behaviors related to gaining access to and isolating the child were most common, followed by tactics used to develop trust and desensitize the child. These findings are discussed as they pertain to the identification and prevention of CSA, including the importance of providing training informed by sexual grooming that may occur in YSOs, screening and monitoring individuals seeking placements in YSOs, establishing procedures that limit alone time with children, and policies prohibiting volunteer's involvement in the changing and bathing of minors.
研究表明，青少年服务组织（YSO）内的儿童性虐待（CSA）往往在数十年间都未被发现，这在一定程度上可能是由于性诱骗行为的存在。美国童子军（BSA）就是这样一个青少年服务组织，有近10万人声称在该组织内遭受过儿童性虐待。本研究旨在描述美国童子军内部儿童性虐待的特征以及性诱骗行为模式中所描述的性诱骗行为的存在情况。从一个公开数据库中选取了156份档案进行编码，这些档案来自20世纪60年代到90年代因涉嫌儿童性虐待而被美国童子军开除的志愿者。研究结果概述了实施儿童性虐待和遭受儿童性虐待的人员情况，以及虐待行为本身的特征。许多案例中都有性诱骗的证据；与接近和隔离儿童相关的行为最为常见，其次是用于建立信任和使儿童脱敏的策略。本文将讨论这些发现与儿童性虐待的识别和预防的相关性，包括提供基于青少年服务组织中可能出现的性诱骗情况的培训、对寻求在青少年服务组织中任职的人员进行筛查和监测、制定限制与儿童单独相处时间的程序，以及禁止志愿者参与未成年人更衣和洗澡的政策的重要性。
