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BU Research Underlines Risk of Violent Child Abuse

12 February 2007

Professor Colin Pritchard New research finds the risk of children being murdered by strangers is reassuringly low, but that the dangers posed by a very small group of offenders tends to be underrated.


The study estimates the numbers of extra-family violent child sex abusers in the UK at any one time and calculates their murder rate and their fatal risk to children [5-14].

The research, by Professor Colin Pritchard and Tony Sayers of the Institute of Health & Community Studies at Bournemouth University, examined a decade of all child homicides from a 4% sample of the UK population, and analysed the profiles of people who killed children.

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