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Netherlands) in 2009. Information about reports of online abuse 187 was also gathered from 13 helplines,
including Kindertelefoon in the Netherlands. Table 3.3 shows a selection of relevant figures taken from the
aforementioned research by CHI.
Table 3.3 Reports of abuse and violence and online abuse 188
Abuse and
violence
62 helplines 13 helplines Kindertelefoon
Of contact
made to
Kindertelefoon
Of contact
made to helplines
N % N % N % %
250.484 100% N/A N/A 26.580 188 100% 11%
Sexual abuse 39.513 16% N/A N/A 4.958 19% 13%
Online abuse N/A N/A 2.255 100% 298 100% 13%
Source: <strong>Child</strong> Helpline International, 2010 and additional information supplied by CHI at the request of BNRM
In 2009, 4958 cases of sexual abuse were reported to Kindertelefoon, which equates to 19% of all reports
relating to abuse and violence that are sent to the organisation. Unfortunately there is no information
available with regard to child abuse material in the reports of sexual abuse. The 298 reports of online
abuse sent to Kindertelefoon all relate to online harassment.
Table 3.4 shows the gender and age distribution of the children who reported incidences of sexual abuse
to Kindertelefoon in 2009.
187 This can be divided into online harassment, harmful sexual content, harmful violent content, other
harmful content, contact with sexual ‘predators’, online coercion to do something, requests for information
relating to online abuse and other issues related to online abuse.
188 When this figure is compared with the Annual Report 2009 of Kindertelefoon (<strong>National</strong> Office of
Kindertelefoon, 2010), the following striking finding emerges. According to the annual report, 141,112
serious reports were made, of which 8.1% related to sexual abuse and 12.2% related to harassment.
This would equate to approximately 28,646 reports, which is likely to include the 298 cases of online
harassment. If we take these away, we end up with 28,348 reports of abuse and violence in accordance
with the definition from the Violence against children report (<strong>Child</strong> Helpline International, 2010),
whilst according to this research 26,850 children have reported these incidents to Kindertelefoon. This
difference can probably be explained by the fact that some children report both sexual abuse and harassment.
These children are counted in both the ‘violence’ and ‘harassment’ categories in the annual
report of Kindertelefoon (<strong>National</strong> Office of Kindertelefoon, 2010), whilst they are only included once in
the ‘abuse and violence’ category in the Violence against children report (<strong>Child</strong> Helpline International,
2010).