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Child Sexual Abuse

Reporting Trends

**Reporting Trends**
Finding	Source	Method
Approximately one half of young people who had experienced abuse told someone (usually a friend or relative) about it at the time	Kelly, Regan and Burton, 1991	Survey of 1,244 young people attending Further Education colleges, Britain
Only 5% of incidents were reported to an agency, and of 1,051 such incidents only 10 resulted in any form of prosecution	Kelly, Regan and Burton, 1991	Survey (as above)