Marta Russell wrote:
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> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> >
> > If anyone has a breakdown, I'd like to see it. I think that the
> > disabled may be more often abused by their families than care-giving
> > workers, especially when it comes to sexual abuse, just as children
> > are more often abused by their family members than baby-sitters,
> > child care workers, summer camp leaders, boarding school teachers,
> > etc. I may be mistaken about this, however. What do you think?
> >
> > Yoshie
>
> While there certainly is abuse within families (lately a slew of
> killings, for instance), many disabled children are separated from
> their families and put into institutions at an early age, so I'm not
> so sure the nondisabled child sexual abuse pattern would hold up here.
> Certainly many children who are sexually abused as children become
> disabled as a result of that abuse. It would take a careful study,
> and maybe Dick Sobsey (director of the JP Das Developmental
> Disabilities Center) has some info here:
>
> http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/ddc/INDEX.html
>
> marta