Characterization of minor victims in alleged sex crimes

Authors

  • Rosendo Gómez Delgado Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara
  • Heidy González Valdés-Ávila Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara
  • Noel Díaz Noguel Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara
  • Baldomero Loy Vera Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara
  • Ricardo Rodríguez Jorge Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara
  • Alfredo C. González Pereira Universidad de Ciencias Médicas “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara.

Keywords:

sex offenses, sexual child abuse

Abstract

A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted during the period from January 2013 to February 2014 with 92 alleged victims who met the inclusion criteria of interest in the study to which they filled out a form for collecting primary data prior informed consent of parents or guardians The objectives included characterizing sexual offenses in alleged victims under 16 years old in the province of Villa Clara and identify demographic and situational variables related to sexual offense type. The data processing was carried out through the creation of a database with a data processor (SPSS for Windows, version 11.0) system. The information is summarized in tables that reflect the absolute values ​​and percentages and survey techniques were used as descriptive type hypothesis testing between proportions, the goodness of fit to a theoretical approach and dependency between variables. It was found that the most common crime was lewd sexual abuse and the largest number of victims were female, aged between 11 and 15 years, the municipalities with the highest number of cases were Santa Clara, followed by Manicaragua and Sagua la Grande, crimes occurred, mostly in the author's home and victimizers  more predominant were neighbors and relatives.

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Gómez Delgado R, González Valdés-Ávila H, Díaz Noguel N, Loy Vera B, Rodríguez Jorge R, González Pereira AC. Characterization of minor victims in alleged sex crimes. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2014 Sep. 22 [cited 2025 Jul. 2];8(3):63-71. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/147

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 3 (2014): July-September

Section

Original Articles

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