Research in Child Abuse and Neglect: Perpetrators and their acts (1987)

Part of our ongoing survey of what the child abuse and neglect research REALLY says about perpetrators. Perpetrator information is highlighted in bold.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3594284

Child Abuse Negl. 1987;11(2):237-45. Links
Perpetrators and their acts: data from 365 adults molested as children.
Kendall-Tackett KA, Simon AF.

Intake interviews were analyzed from 365 adults molested as children (AMACs). The AMACs were entering treatment at the Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Program (San Jose, CA). This study presents data on the relationship of the perpetrator to the victim, and whether most molestations include intercourse. The majority of the perpetrators (62%) were either biological fathers or father-surrogates. Ninety-nine percent of the perpetrators were known to the victim; 97% were male. As in past studies, fondling from the waist down was the most common type of molestation, occurring in 92% of the cases. Forty-four percent of cases included intercourse. The present findings are compared with past research and are discussed in the context of common misconceptions associated with child sexual abuse.