child sexual abuse
English
Etymology
Compound of child + sexual abuse.
Noun
child sexual abuse (uncountable)
- (crime) Synonym of child molestation.
- 2022 April 14, Cloe Read, “$100m paid out to child sexual abuse victims in schools, churches”, in Brisbane Times:
- More than $100 million has been paid out to victims of institutional child sexual abuse in Queensland, amid more than 13,000 national applications for redress.
- 2022 April 14, Olga Khazan, “Republicans Have Sex Ed All Wrong”, in The Atlantic:
- One meta-analysis found that European countries, many of which offer comprehensive, mandatory sex ed, including for young children, tend to have the lowest rates of child sexual abuse in the world.
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Translations
child molestation — see child molestation