The characteristics features of CSA includes:
- Perpetrator seldom used physical force or violence;
instead gain child’s trust and hid the abuse
- The perpetrator is usually a known, reliable or trusted
caregiver.
- Perpetrators develops relationship with child over
time as gradual process of sexualizing
- It often happens over weeks or years
- Occurs frequently as repeated episodes with increase
invasiveness with time
- Most of the cases of CSA are interfamilial or incest.
