Child Services
What is child sexual abuse?
Child sexual abuse occurs when a person engages a child (under the age of 18) in acts to satisfy their sexual desires.
1) When any person, adult or child forces, coerces or threatens a child to have any form of sexual contact or to engage in any type of sexual activity at his or her discretion. While a child might be forced to cooperate, he or she is (by legal definition) not capable of giving consent.
2) Involving children in inappropriate touching (clothed or unclothed), penetration using any object, forcing sexual activity between children, or asking the child to view, to read or to participate in the production of pornographic materials.
3) A person commits the offense of child molestation when he or she does any immoral or indecent act to, in the presence of or with any child with the intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desires of either the child or person.