12 February 2007
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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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