Children’s exposure to pornography is leading to an alarming number of violent sexual assaults being perpetrated by kids against others their own age and younger, medical experts are warning.
“I think that was kind of shocking to us all as we were collecting this data, is that almost half of our perpetrators are minors,” said Heidi Olson, a sexual assault nurse examiner coordinator at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri.
Dr. Jennifer Hansen, a pediatrician who works with victims of child abuse at Children’s Mercy, told news station KHSB last week: “Another thing we’re noticing is a lot of those sexual assaults are violent sexual assaults, so they include physical violence in addition to sexual violence.”
