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Findings: “57 per cent of cases involved perpetrators already known including friends, family
members, or romantic partners.”
“16 per cent of cases involved perpetrators who were complete strangers. In 27 per cent of cases,
children were unable to identify the perpetrator or chose not to disclose their identity.”
Table overview: Table A10 presents the distribution of technology-facilitated child sexual
exploitation and abuse instances by perpetrator category. Using data from both rounds of the
Disrupting Harm study, the table shows the percentage of instances involving perpetrators known
to the child, strangers and unidentified perpetrators. Perpetrator categories are based on the
harmonized constructs described in the Overview of Variables section.
Table A10: Percentage of technology-facilitated child sexual exploitation and abuse instances
by perpetrator category, including someone known to the child, a stranger, or an unidentified
perpetrator (2020–2025).
Country
Someone the
child knows
Stranger
Unidentified
Armenia
54
24
23
Brazil
55
20
25
Cambodia
66
10
24
Colombia
41
22
37
Dominican Republic
53
11
36
Ethiopia
65
12
23
Indonesia
54
15
32
Kenya
66
17
18
Malaysia
30
16
54
Mexico
60
14
26
Montenegro
68
16
16
Mozambique
58
21
21
Namibia
62
15
23
North Macedonia
80
6
15
Pakistan
50
19
31
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