When an adult person, or person significantly older than the child, engages in sexual activity with a minor. The abuse can occur over a period of time or be a one-time incident and includes touching, fondling, kissing, oral sex, masturbation, digital and penile penetration of the rectum or vagina. In other words, Child molestation is the act of sexually touching a child.
A child is a girl or boy who is 13 years of age or younger.
CHILD MOLESTATION IS A FORM OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE.
Child Sexual Abuse includes any sexual behavior or activity that is abusive toward another, a minor, and/or prohibited by state or federal law. Fondling, oral sex, simulated or actual intercourse, exhibitionism, taking sexually explicit pictures of children, showing sexually explicit material to children or having sex in front of a child are all considered child sexual abuse.
