Prevalence and characteristics of online child sexual victimization: Findings from the Australian Child Maltreatment Study.

Background: Online child sexual victimization is increasingly facilitated by technology, but evidence of its prevalence and characteristics remains scarce. Reliable population-based data is critical to understand the magnitude and nature of the problem, and inform evidence-based prevention.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of nonconsensual sharing of sexual images of the child by any perpetrator, and of online sexual solicitation by any adult perpetrator; and to determine the characteristics of these experiences.

Disclosure and non-disclosure of childhood sexual abuse in Australia: Results from a national survey.

Background: Little population-based evidence exists about prevalence of lifetime disclosure and non-disclosure of child sexual abuse (CSA). Evidence is lacking about disclosure by girls and women compared with boys and men, and gender diverse individuals. It is unclear if disclosure is more common in contemporary society, and if disclosure is influenced by abuse severity and perpetrator type.

Online commercial sexual exploitation of children in a national victim survey.

Objective: To describe the characteristics and consequences of online commercial sexual exploitation of children using a nationally representative sample.

Method: The online survey sample comprised 2,639 respondents aged 18-28 from the KnowledgePanel maintained by the survey research firm Ipsos.

Results: Fifty-eight respondents or a weighted 1.

Persisting concerns about image exposure among survivors of image-based sexual exploitation and abuse in childhood.

Objective: Among survivors of image-based sexual exploitation and abuse, how many experienced persisting concerns about others encountering their sexual images?

Method: Online self-administered questionnaire was used. A sample of 189 unique incidents of image-based sexual abuse or exploitation in childhood from 154 respondents ages 18-28 were gathered in a follow-up study to a previous national online survey about technology-facilitated abuse.

Results: Twenty-six percent of the episodes generated high levels of persisting concern about possible unwanted exposure from the online availability of images.