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70: Sexual Abuse
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Published:May 2023
Carla Falco, MD, FAAP, Marcella Donaruma, MD, FAAP, "Sexual Abuse", Caring for the Hospitalized Child: A Handbook of Inpatient Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Hospital Medicine, Jeffrey C. Gershel, MD, FAAP, Daniel A. Rauch, MD, FAAP, SFHM
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Sexual abuse is defined as sexual activities involving a child that the child cannot comprehend, activities for which the child is developmentally unprepared and cannot give consent, and/or activities that violate the law or social taboos of society. Sexual assault is one type of sexual abuse and has been defined in a 2003 National Institute of Justice report as “a range of acts, including the sexual penetration of a youth’s vagina or anus by a penis, finger, or object; the placement of another person’s mouth on a youth’s sexual parts; the touching of a youth’s sexual parts by another person...
