Possibly a provable cover-up in the U.S. Government reports. Could there actually be 2,000,000 sexually abused child victims every year? (pizzagate)

submitted ago by anonOpenPress

A comment under my recent statistics post got me to investigate a bit further.

This seems important, could indicate a cover up in the reporting of sexually abused child victims by U.S. Government to the public / press.

THERE'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING TO FIX:

The Department of State Police in Virginia reported

3,011 Child Victims of Forcible Sex Offenses in Virginia in 2015 right here (pdf)

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services reported

653 Sexually Abused Child Victims in Virginia in 2015 right here (pdf)

Please someone deliver these pdf's to the local press in Virginia (avoid biased media if possible) and ask them to look into it. They have better access to interview local authorities to find out what is there to be fixed:

  • If the reporting method enables dropping 4 out of 5 cases in the national report, used by national press too, this must be fixed!
  • It should be found out how many victims the Department of State Police reported to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
  • if the reported amount by the State police varies from the reported amount by the HHS, there's a proven cover up in the governmental level

Also, I ask your help to find out if this same issue repeats in other States. Please check what's told by your local State authorities and local press, and compare it to the numbers given here. Note: Until investigated, we should not trust these HSS statistics at all. Tip: search terms "Sexually, Abused, Child, Victims, Sex Offenses, State(named), police, report, 2015"

A mistake is there, that's for sure, and I double checked it's not me. The scale of the mistake might be as high as 40, like in Virginia, see:

Assuming that 13% of cases are reported to authorities, there might have been more than 26,300 child victims in Virginia. 3,011 of them were reported to the police and 653 (less than 3%) reported by U.S. government to the public.

If this repeats through each State, it's possible that there are as many as 2,000,000 sexually abused children annually in the U.S.

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SoberSecondThought ago

There is definitely some covering-up going on at the state level. In at least one case, the Department of Families and Children, or the CPA, or whatever it is called, has actually been dissolved and replaced with a new agency because it was doing such a bad job. Elsewhere employees have been arrested for falsifying records and covering up abuse.

It's harder to be sure what is happening at the federal level. Often the federal statistics are dependent on voluntary reporting from the states, so while they are a less-than-credible mishmosh, the blame doesn't lie solely with the federal officials.

See, for example, this discussion from last month about the Children's Bureau and its unbelievably low quoted rate of foster abuse.