It’s collection tin rattling time again for the radical feminist ‘child protection’ group known as the NSPCC, so what better than to throw out a shock statistic that every tabloid will lap up?

One child is being sexually abused every 20 minutes (or 60 a day)

A child was sexually attacked every 20 minutes last year and more than 400 offences reported each week.

The scale of sex crimes against children emerged yesterday after a Freedom of Information request by the NSPCC.

The statistics also revealed how only one in 10 accused were convicted, the charity said.
More than a fifth of the 23,097 victims were of primary school age and almost 1,500 were five or under.

The NSPCC published the figures yesterday after sending FOI requests to the 43 police forces of England and Wales.

A total of 14,819 offences were committed against 11 to 17-year-olds and girls were six times more likely to be abused than boys.

Jon Brown, head of the charity’s Sexual Abuse programme, said: “A concentrated effort has to be made if we are to start reducing this distressing level of offences.

“When you have a situation where more than 60 children are being sexually abused every day, something is very wrong.”

The poor conviction rate was particularly worrying, added Mr Brown.

Although every child sexually abused in the UK represents an individual tragedy, it remains prudent whenever dealing with a radical feminist lobby group, especially the NSPCC, to subject their collection tin rattling hysteria to a degree of healthy scepticism.

60 children a day are not being sexually abused according to these statistics – 60 children a day are reported to the police as being sexually abused.  Only 10% of these reports are sufficiently serious or credible to result in convictions.  Naturally, it is beyond any radical feminist hate group to admit to the possibility that thousands of men are being falsely accused of child sexual abuse, or that the majority of these reports are simply mistaken or the result of overzealous concerns.  In fact, a recent NSPCC ‘don’t wait until you’re certain‘ campaign will only increase the numbers of falsely accused men.

As said, every real case of child sexual abuse is an awful tragedy, but the only real statistic to be garnered here is that ‘only’ 6 British children a day are proven (through the courts) to have been sexually abused.  Compare this statistic to the fact that around 15 British children each day are killed or seriously injured simply crossing the road.

Furthermore, whilst this site has always condemned unreservedly any illegal activity involving underage children, the majority of those 6 sex abuse cases each day involve teenagers – and a sizeable percentage of those cases likely involve willing participation on the part of the ‘victims’, and in fact, will have only been legally defined as ‘sexual abuse’ as a result of campaigns by feminist groups themselves, including the NSPCC :

More than a fifth of the 23,097 victims were of primary school age and almost 1,500 were five or under.

This is meant to be shocking enough for you to reach for your credit card and make a donation.  However, one fifth of the victims being primary school age means that 4/5 weren’t.

The number of under 18′s (children under feminist legal definitions) in the UK is around 12 million.

6 children sexually abused a day = around 1,800 a year.   That means the chances of an individual child being sexually abused in a given year (and leading to a conviction) is around 1 in 6500.

Of course, not all of the non-convictions resulting from reports to the police about sexual abuse will be false accusations, and not all real incidents of sexual abuse will even be reported to the police.  So for the sake of argument, let’s suppose that the NSPCC might even be close to the mark and 60 children a day are being sexually abused in the UK.

That would mean that the odds for an individual child being sexually abused in an individual year are around 1 in 650.

Over 5,000 British children a year are killed or seriously injured crossing the road.  That equates to around a 1 in 2400 chance each year.  As indicated earlier, just as some cases of rape are worse than others, whatever feminists say, some cases of child abuse are worse than others.  A 5 year old being raped is worse than a 15 year old having a 25 year old boyfriend, or a 15 year old and her friends giggling at being flashed at in the park (or online) by an old man with a small willy.  Arguably, those latter two cases of sexual abuse are far less serious and damaging than a child losing a leg in a road accident.

Even granting the NSPCC’s spurious statistic, and even equivalating all ‘child sexual abuse’ with the seriousness of being killed or maimed, the fact remains that a child is slightly less than 4 times more likely to be sexually abused than she or he is to be killed or seriously injured crossing the road.  I cannot recall the NSPCC ever launching a campaign on road safety for children, or even mentioning the importance of improving road safety for children. Saving the lives of the thousands of children killed or maimed in road accidents simply doesn’t fall within its radical feminist sexual trade union lobbying agenda.

In a perfect world, no child would be killed or injured crossing the road, and no child would be sexually abused.  We seem able to accept the sad truth that beyond a few sensible laws relating to drink driving, the introduction of measures such as speed bumps to roads etc, and a certain level of education for children regarding road safety, we can never hope to completely ensure that no child will die in a road accident. Yet we seem completely unable to accept that, unfortunately, some children will always be sexually abused, no matter how much fear and hysteria we instill in their young minds, and no matter how many men we lock up, criminalize, or falsely accuse.

Accepting that the world is imperfect, and that the possibility of evil and harm will always be present within it, is the price we pay for having a functioning society.  Just as roads and traffic are essential to the infrastructure of a healthy society, so too are features of human existence such as the family, schools, and interaction between the young and the old.  Allowing feminists to exaggerate the scale of child sexual abuse, to inflate the definitions of child sexual abuse, and to pretend that (if only you give the NSPCC a little more money) that the sexual abuse of children can ever hope to be stopped completely, is undermining the very fabric of society, and doing more damage to children themselves than all the paedophiles in the world could ever do.

Other statistics concerning the dangers that children face :

Nearly 1 in 2 children in the UK is bullied, with 10% saying they had been bullied in the last 6 months according to a 1999 study (it is acknowledged by the handful of genuine child protection charities in existance that the problem of bullying has increased since then).

1500 children in the UK are diagnosed with cancer each year.  That’s over half the number of children involved in a sexual abuse crime resulting in a conviction.

According to statistics quoted by the NSPCC themselves, 7% of children suffer physical abuse.  A child therefore has a 1 in 14 chance of being physically abused by one or both of their parents, compared to a 1 in 650 chance of being sexually abused by anyone in a given year according to the NSPCC (and a 1 in 6500 chance of being sexually abused later proven by a conviction).  The NSPCC itself admits that mothers are equally or more likely than fathers to physically abuse their chilren.  Despite this, on the minority of occasions when the NSPCC decides to campaign against physical abuse (rather than more lucrative sexual abuse anti-paedo campaigns), the father is invariably depicted as the abuser.

To put the last statistic another way.  According to the NSPCC themselves, a child is anywhere between 20 and 200 times more likely to be violently physically abused by their own mother than to be sexually abused by anyone inside or outside of the family in a given year.  This is even more striking given the fact that the majority of laws and definitions relating to child sexual abuse have been set by radical feminists (such as the policy makers of the NSPCC) themselves.

See also :

(Angry Harry) The NSPCC Shatters Child Abuse Myths – Its Own Myths!