Ninety to 93 percent of child sexual assault victims know their offender—with a third to a half of the perpetrators being family members.21,22 Only about 7 percent of perpetrators are strangers. Eighty-eight percent of perpetrators are male. So let’s put that all together in the plainest words: the people who are most likely to sexually abuse your child are the cis men already in their life—their father, their stepfather, their grandfather, their uncle, their brother, their mom’s boyfriend, or other male friends.
