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Child sexual abuse: who, when, where, why and how?

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  • 1. Akademi Kebidanan Bina Husada Tangerang
  • 2. Politeknik Kesehatan, Kementrian Kesehatan Bima Jurusan Keperawatan, Nusa Tenggara Barat
  • 3. Akademi Kebidanan Harapan Bunda Bima
  • 4. Akademi Kebidanan Bina Husada, Tangerang
  • 5. Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan Bina Permata Medika

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Background. Increasing cases of child sexual abuse happen unreportedly. This has caused repetition of abuse and made accurate prevalence of happening difficult to predict. Repetition of abuse will result in worse negative impacts to children, both for long and short term. Aim. This study aims to explore the chronology of child sexual abuse. Method. It is a qualitative study with phenomenological approach. The participants were those who were involved or who knew the happenings. Snowball technique was used for collecting data and the initial participants were the abusers jailed in IIB Class custody of Raba Bima, West Nusa Tenggara. Thourough interviews were conducted from February to March 2016, involving 22 persons for 8 cases of girl sexual abuse. Results. This study reports the relationship between the victims and abusers; time, place and frequency of sexual abuse; occupation of abuser’s wife; reasons of commiting sexual abuse; how it was revealed, the handling of victims and the intervention to abusers. Conclusion. Sexual abuse is an unpredictable crime which may happen to anybody, anytime, anywhere and may be committed by anybody. Parents should give more attention to their children, choose and monitor the child’s environment, introduce sex education in their early age and tell them how to get help when they are sexually abused. Thematic oral analysis was used for data analysis whereas triangulation method was used for data verification.

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