CHILDREN & ANIMALS
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:
University of New Hampshire soci-
ologist David Finkelhor reported in the
October issue of Pediatrics that a telephone
survey of 2,000 children aged 10-16 had dis-
covered 15.6% were assault victims within the
previous year, triple the 5.2% reported by the
1991 National Crime Survey; 0.5% had been
raped, five times higher than the NCS esti-
mate of 0.1%; and 75% of the attacks were by
other youths, including 41% of the sexual
assaults. From 30% to 40% of the victims had
never reported the assaults, Finkelhor said.