Medical confidentiality in child sexual abuse

Medical confidentiality and multidisciplinary work: child sexual abuse and mental handicap registers.

We received a short paperfrom Dr Williams raising the issue ofmedical confidentiality as encountered by general practitioners in cases of child sexual abuse. Similarly, we received a letterfrom Dr Singh describing a conflict with his local social services department about the confidentiality of information requested by the department for inclusion in a mental handicap register. We asked a gener...

Child Sexual Abuse

Child Sexual Abuse

Child Sexual Abuse

14„child Sexual Abuse”

Sexual abuse is defined as the involvement in developmentally immature children or adolescents in sexual activities that they do not fully comprehend, to which they are unable to give informed consent and that violate social taboos of family or other adult-child relationships. We present one of the more drastic and obvious cases of sexual abuse in adolescents – which has been observed in childh...