Obscene Telephone Calls to Children: A Retrospective Field Study

Studied a sample of 24 Danish children selected from a larger group of 56 children who had received obscene telephone calls from a single adult offender to ascertain the psychological consequences of this form of sexual abuse. The sample is unusual in that the source of the abuse was the same for al...

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Published inJournal of clinical child and adolescent psychology Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 626 - 632
Main Authors Larsen, Helmer B., Leth, Ingrid, Maher, Brendan A.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc 01.12.2000
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Subjects
Adolescent
Child
Child abuse & neglect
Child Abuse, Sexual
Child Behavior
Child psychology
Children & youth
Female
Humans
Male
Mental Disorders
Pornography & obscenity
Stress, Psychological
Telephone
Telephones
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Summary:Studied a sample of 24 Danish children selected from a larger group of 56 children who had received obscene telephone calls from a single adult offender to ascertain the psychological consequences of this form of sexual abuse. The sample is unusual in that the source of the abuse was the same for all of the children, and none of them had records of prior or concurrent abuse from other sources. Almost all children suffered significant psychological consequences from these calls, those who obeyed the caller's demands experiencing more serious consequences than those who did not. A comparison was made with the consequences suffered by an additional group of 7 children who had experienced direct physical sexual abuse by the same offender.
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ISSN:0047-228X
1537-4416
1532-7639
1537-4424
DOI:10.1207/S15374424JCCP2904_14