Table 2.
Percentage of victims’ age at the first experience and perpetrator’s characteristics as a function of gender for “somebody fondled some part of my body”.
| Variables | N | % | Male (n = 49) |
Female (n = 132) |
χ2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age at first experience | |||||
| <6 | 12 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 6.8 | 2.33 |
| 6–11 | 70 | 38.7 | 34.7 | 40.2 | |
| 12–15 | 61 | 33.7 | 30.6 | 34.8 | |
| 16–17 | 38 | 21.0 | 28.6 | 18.2 | |
| Number of times | |||||
| Once | 67 | 37.0 | 44.9 | 34.1 | 3.03 |
| 2–3 | 65 | 35.9 | 36.7 | 35.6 | |
| 4–5 | 17 | 9.4 | 6.1 | 10.6 | |
| >5 | 32 | 17.7 | 12.2 | 19.7 | |
| Perpetrator (more than one experience) | |||||
| Same person | 51 | 44.7 | 48.1 | 43.7 | 0.17 |
| Different people | 63 | 55.3 | 51.9 | 56.3 | |
| Gender of perpetrator | |||||
| Male | 162 | 89.5 | 73.5 | 95.5 | 20.61 a,** |
| Female | 16 | 8.8 | 24.5 | 3.0 | |
| Both | 3 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 1.5 | |
| Relationship with perpetrator | |||||
| Parent | 10 | 5.5 | 2.0 | 6.8 | 1.56 |
| Another adult family member | 31 | 17.1 | 8.2 | 20.5 | 3.80 * |
| Responsible for childcare | 9 | 5.0 | 6.1 | 4.5 | 0.19 |
| Adult acquaintance | 63 | 34.8 | 30.6 | 36.4 | 0.52 |
| Strange adult | 61 | 33.7 | 36.7 | 32.6 | 0.28 |
| Another minor | 53 | 29.3 | 30.6 | 28.8 | 0.06 |
Note. a Bootstrapping. ** p < 0.01. * p < 0.05.