The attitude of maltreatment towards children has continued throughout the history of humanity until today. In the past, children were made slaves and sold for money, injured, killed and sometimes buried alive. There are even societies where girls are not valued and are burned as soon as they are born. In this way, cases of abuse have continued from history to today, perhaps using the same or different methods. It includes behavior, sexual abuse, neglect, carelessness, commercial and other exploitation1 (WHO, 2006, 2010). Despite different statistical results regarding the prevalence of abuse experiences, international studies report that approximately 20% of women and 5-10% of men were exposed to sexual abuse during childhood, and 25-50% of all individuals were exposed to physical abuse (WHO, 2010)2
Abuse is a phenomenon that seriously affects the physical, social and psychological health of children in the short, medium and long term. Being exposed to maltreatment, especially by those who are responsible for protecting him, affects the child deeply psychologically (Topçu, 2009).3
. Although many laws and regulations have been enacted on this issue, this problem has not been resolved, including the most developed countries in the world, and this awareness has not yet been brought to the society.
Child sexual abuse is a physical, emotional, social, It is a wide-ranging and complex problem with moral, cultural and legal dimensions. sexual abuse; It is defined as 'the use of a child or adolescent who has not yet completed his sexual development by an adult by using force, threats or deception to meet his sexual desires and needs. If the abuse is committed by someone who is related to the child or adolescent by blood or is responsible for taking care of him, this situation is called "incest". Although sexual abuse is focused on sexual activity between a child and an adult, sexual activities between two children; minimum age difference At 5 years of age, if a young child is exposed to activities aimed at sexual pleasure by force or persuasion, it is considered as sexual abuse (İşeri, 2008). 2000).5
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