>But how many of them are there, really? Crimes committed by strangers
>against young children are quite rare, aren't they? Kids are probably
>more at risk from their uncles than from these alleged sick strangers.
>
>Doug
This is well-documented:
http://cpj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/22/5/369
Departments of Pediatrics and Epidemiology/Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
For an 18-month period, all sexual abuse cases were referred to a project social worker. From her initial interview and the medical records, data were analyzed for 113 children who were 12 years of age or younger.... While only 44 per cent of abusers were relatives of the abused, almost all (93%) were known to the family. If a relative were the alleged abuser, there was a high probability that it was a father, stepfather, or uncle.
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/ascii/CVVOATVX.TXT
*For the vast majority of child victimizers in State prison, the victim was someone they knew before the crime:
A third had committed their crime against their own child
About half had a relationship with the victim as a friend, acquaintance, or relative other than offspring
About 1 in 7 reported the victim to have been a stranger to them.
*Three-quarters of the violent victimizations of children took place in either the victim's home or the offender's home.