This article attempts to provide estimates of the prevalence of child sexual abuse in England and Wales - the number of offences, the number of children affected and the number of child sexual abusers, both convicted and unreported. These figures provide a context for individual press reports or personal experience of abuse.
This article attempts to provide estimates of the prevalence of sexual offences against children and adults in Ireland - the number of offences, the number of people affected and the number of sexual offenders, both convicted and unreported. These figures provide a context for individual press reports or personal experience of sexual abuse and assault.
Allegations of child sexual abuse have been made against a number of teachers at Sevenoaks School, notably Gerd Sommerhoff (who has been linked with the Paedophile Information Exchange). A court case was settled against Sevenoaks School in 2013 for damages to XY resulting from sexual abuse by Gerd Sommerhoff. The school chaplain throughout the years of this abuse was Peter Hullah, formerly a Bishop in the Chruch of England, head of Chetham School of Music at the time of sexual abuse there.