There is a genuine, but difficult to prove, relationship between the distribution and social acceptance of child pornography and the incidence of sexual abuse of children" ( PedoWatch http://pedowatch.org/index.htm). In 1996, a review of data from 11 States showed that 77 percent of sexual abuse victims were girls and 23 percent boys. (Source: The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information).
Child sexual abuse has been reported up to 80,000 times a year, but the number of unreported instances is far greater, because the children are afraid to tell anyone what has happened, and the legal procedure for validating an episode is difficult (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry).
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