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WQ.15/2024
WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS BY DEPUTY M.B. ANDREWS OF ST. HELIER NORTH
QUESTION SUBMITTED ON MONDAY 12TH FEBRUARY 2024 ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON MONDAY 19TH FEBRUARY 2024
Question
“Will the Minister provide the number of cases involving child abuse that were reported to the States of Jersey police during the period 2019 to 2023; and will she advise how many led to prosecutions and convictions?”
Answer
|
|
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
Total |
|
All recorded offences [i] |
137 |
92 |
104 |
97 |
101 |
531 |
|
Charged for Court or warned to Parish Hall Enquiry (PHE) |
20 |
14 |
14 |
16 |
14 |
78 |
|
Conviction (any sanction at Court or PHE) |
14 |
9 |
10 |
12 |
3 |
48 |
Notes:
• Police record all reports received as a separate incident (for example, for 2023 there were 101 individual recorded reports of offences– some of which are likely to involve multiple reports for one victim or one suspect).
• The number of charges/prosecution relates to the number of cases (some of which could have been reported during the previous years) that would have met the Evidential threshold and the Public Interest test. Not all reported cases meet the criteria – most of the offences on the list, if not all, are now subject of LOD decision on charge/prosecution.
• Each conviction relates to a specific offence rather than the offender – so it can be that multiple offences/convictions relate to one defendant/offender.
Indecent assault on male
Indecent exposure
Other sexual offences
Possess/distribute indecent images of child
Rape of a female
Rape of a female child aged 12 or younger
Rape of a male
Rape of a male child aged 12 or younger
Sexual grooming of a female child
Sexual penetration of a female child aged 12 or younger Sexual Penetration of a female without consent
Sexual penetration of a male child aged 12 or younger Sexual touching of a female child aged 12 or younger Sexual touching of a male child aged 12 or younger Sexual touching of a male without consent
Sexual touching of female without consent
Unlawful sexual act between children
Unlawful sexual intercourse with an older female child Unlawful sexual penetration of an older female child Unlawful sexual penetration of an older male child Unlawful sexual touching of an older female child Unlawful sexual touching of an older male child
USI girl under 13 yrs.
USI girl under 16 yrs.
Voyeurism