Table 6
Victims and accused persons, sexual offences against children and youth, by age group, Canada, 2012

Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims and accused persons. The information is grouped by Age group of accused (appearing as row headers), Age group of victim, 0 to 3 years, 4 to 6 years, 7 to 11 years, 12 to 15 years, 16 to 17 years and 0 to 17 years, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Age group of accused Age group of victim
0 to 3 years 4 to 6 years 7 to 11 years 12 to 15 years 16 to 17 years 0 to 17 years
number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent number percent
12 to 15 years 54 25.0 322 39.8 539 30.0 552 15.5 64 5.0 1,531 19.9
16 to 17 years 4 1.9 47 5.8 132 7.3 412 11.6 166 12.8 761 9.9
18 to 24 years 26 12.0 61 7.5 179 10.0 848 23.8 343 26.5 1,457 19.0
25 to 34 years 47 21.8 119 14.7 261 14.5 572 16.1 206 15.9 1,205 15.7
35 to 44 years 48 22.2 107 13.2 250 13.9 548 15.4 229 17.7 1,182 15.4
45 to 54 years 17 7.9 58 7.2 217 12.1 350 9.8 171 13.2 813 10.6
55 to 64 years 12 5.6 57 7.0 121 6.7 152 4.3 68 5.3 410 5.3
65 years and over 8 3.7 39 4.8 99 5.5 129 3.6 45 3.5 320 4.2
Total 216 100.0 810 100.0 1,798 100.0 3,563 100.0 1,292 100.0 7,679 100.0
Notes: Includes only those victims for which police identified a single accused person. The sexual offences in this table include aggravated sexual assault (level 3), sexual assault with a weapon or causing bodily harm (level 2), sexual assault (level 1), sexual interference, invitation to sexual touching, sexual exploitation, sexual exploitation of a person with a disability, incest, corrupting children, making sexually explicit material available to children, luring a child via a computer, anal intercourse, bestiality (commit/compel/incite), and voyeurism. Includes victims under the age of 18 only. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but miscoded as 0.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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