Child sexual abuse (CSA) represents a serious violence type practiced against children and adolescents, meaning a severe social problem that occurs in all social classes, no matter
the color, culture level, beliefs or socioeconomic conditions. The objective of this study is to
evaluate epidemiologically the cases of childish sexual abuse assisted at Pró-Paz Integrated,
from november 2004 to november 2005, in the municipal district of Belém, Pará. 311 children's handbooks aged zero through twelve years old were analyzed according to the following variables: aggressor´s type, the responsible for the accusation and which kind of place one sought for care, violence types suffered by the victims; the place of abuse occurrences, aggressor´s schooling and relationship degree. We also compared the brazilian statistics epidemiology with the datas found during the first year of Integrated Pró-Paz functioning. The collected datas, coming from handbook revision belonging to Integrated Pró Paz, resulted from an elaborated protocol by the authors of this work. The most of 311 children assisted by Integrated Pro-Paz were female (73,63%) and they belonged the age group from 9 to 11 years (24,76%). In relation to the masculine sex (26,37%) the age group prevalente was from 6 to 8 years (10,93%). The largest number of abuses happened among the ones that were in the fundamental school, in both sexes (47,59%). Among the cases which the violence datas had been registered in the handbooks, the violence notification was more frequently made twenty-four hours after the abuse (40%). It was also observed, in general, that the abusive person was only male (84,89%) and aged 19 through 40 years old (41,49%). Related to schooling, the most of cases possessed fundamental teaching (11,76%). From 43,34% cases the abusive person was the victim´s neighbor or relative and usually the sexual violence happened in the house of the abusive person (29%). For the most part of child sexual abuse, the notification was done by the mothers (57,88%). It was clear that the girls suffered more frequently from libidinous action (49,2%), followed by sexual abuse suspicion (12,22%) and psychological violence (9,97%). However, in boys the psychological violence was the most frequent (22,83%) followed by libidinous action (20,57%) and sexual abuse suspicion (4,18%). In general, our datas corroborate with brazilian literature, meantime, related to the aggressor relationship degree with the victim and the place of the abuse we had a disagreement. We conclude that the existence of an specific place for the victims of childish sexual violence service is crucial to help the victims to deal with sexual violence impact and its sequels as well as to prevent future fatalities.
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