cottmann
May 20th, 2006, 09:16
I wonder if Boygeorge will comment on this and if all the Australians "fighting" child exploitation overseas will now head home?
"Aboriginal boys are 10 times more likely to be raped than other Australian males, in sexual violence that repeats through the generations and persists under a shroud of secrecy. An 18-month study of indigenous men's health, completed last week, has unearthed a culture of abuse against males," The Weekend Australian reports.
"The study interviewed 301 indigenous men in Queensland and the NT one-on-one. It found one in 10 had been raped before the age of 16 - 10 times the rate in the rest of Australia."
"Over the past 40 years, the risk of sexual abuse of boys has been falling very substantially," he said. "This has been observed in a number of countries including Australia, Canada and the US. But our study, in which we have compared men over 40 years of age with those under 40, there is no difference in the level of abuse."
According to the survey, 33per cent of the men - aged between 18 and 74 - said they had been touched or fondled against their will, compared with the national average of 12per cent.
A further 15 per cent of the indigenous men interviewed said they were victims of attempted anal sex, and 10 per cent of forced anal sex, compared with a rate of 3per cent and 1per cent, respectively, for the rest of Australia's male population. While some of the older victims claimed to have been abused by outsiders, including missionaries, most perpetrators came from within their communities. "
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 01,00.html (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19195250-601,00.html)
"Aboriginal boys are 10 times more likely to be raped than other Australian males, in sexual violence that repeats through the generations and persists under a shroud of secrecy. An 18-month study of indigenous men's health, completed last week, has unearthed a culture of abuse against males," The Weekend Australian reports.
"The study interviewed 301 indigenous men in Queensland and the NT one-on-one. It found one in 10 had been raped before the age of 16 - 10 times the rate in the rest of Australia."
"Over the past 40 years, the risk of sexual abuse of boys has been falling very substantially," he said. "This has been observed in a number of countries including Australia, Canada and the US. But our study, in which we have compared men over 40 years of age with those under 40, there is no difference in the level of abuse."
According to the survey, 33per cent of the men - aged between 18 and 74 - said they had been touched or fondled against their will, compared with the national average of 12per cent.
A further 15 per cent of the indigenous men interviewed said they were victims of attempted anal sex, and 10 per cent of forced anal sex, compared with a rate of 3per cent and 1per cent, respectively, for the rest of Australia's male population. While some of the older victims claimed to have been abused by outsiders, including missionaries, most perpetrators came from within their communities. "
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 01,00.html (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19195250-601,00.html)