By the Numbers:
A Statistical Portrait of Sex Offenses

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Perception: Most sex offenders are male and most victims are female.

Facts: Most offenders are male and most victims are female. But the percentage of female offenders and male victims rises in assaults against children.

In combined counts from Vermont and New Hampshire in 2004, 92 percent of all sex offenders were male. Meanwhile, females accounted for 83 percent of victims in the two states combined.

For children in the two states aged 12 and under, boys made up 35 percent of all victims, while women were approximately 10 percent of offenders for victims 12 and under and for victims aged 17 and younger.