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Peters J.J.
Children who are victims of sexual assaults and the psychology of
offenders
American Journal of Psychotherapy 30(3), 398-421 (1976)
from Sandfort 1986, p.103
Peters (1976) discovered in his research that of the children he
investigated who had had pedosexual contacts 32% had never told
anybody about the sex. He attributed this to the fear the child had of
the reactions of his parents. According to Peters it is possible that
the child does not feel guilty about the sex itself but over the fact
that he has to hide it from his parents. In the case of the boys he
interviewed, feelings of guilt and anxiety did not play a large role
in how they experienced the sexual contact.