Tips for talking to children about molestation and safety
Parents can learn to discuss good and bad touching with children using clear terms and body part names. Center Against Sexual Abuse offers tips and a hotline 241-9010 for guidance.
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Newspaper
Mesa Tribune
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1994
Page
12
Parents can learn to discuss good and bad touching with children using clear terms and body part names. Center Against Sexual Abuse offers tips and a hotline 241-9010 for guidance.
Ortiz notes worry over molestation by youths with six 1993 cases in Gilbert up from one in 1992 while Rose Cox and Orr discuss underreporting and the need for education, prevention, and treatment. Kennedy and Armstrong describe investigation, court handling, and varied juvenile programs including probation, counseling, and residential treatment such as Adobe Mountain.
Roberson, a former child with 11 fractures from ages five to twelve, attributes her recovery to puberty and stronger bones. Now an aide at a large campus, she still uses crutches at school and aims to study business administration at Mesa Community College before attending Northern Arizona University, crediting her mother for resilience.
One in three girls and one in five boys are sexually abused before 18. Ninety to ninety five percent go unreported. A third of victims are younger than five. Ten percent of rape victims are under five. Sixty percent of abusers are acquaintances. eleven percent are strangers. Source The Center Against Sexual Abuse.
President Clinton aimed to sign a sweeping crime bill by Memorial Day, but conferees in the House and Senate have not met to reconcile their versions. The Senate backed a $22 billion measure last November and the House a $28 billion version in April. A contentious clash over spending and an assault weapons ban shapes the stalled talks as the full Congress resumes on June 8.
Dr Hernan Carrion, president of Peruvian Institutions, said the Mesa convention mattered for drawing representatives from 33 Peruvian institutions in the United States and Canada. Local attorney Ralph Pew spoke in fluent Spanish to Peruvians, recounting Mesa’s founding and his two-year Mormon mission in Peru in the mid-1970s. He praised Peru’s scenery from ocean to Andes to the jungle in a day.
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