Clergy-Perpetrated Sexual Abuse in Ghana: A Media Content Analysis of Survivors, Offenders, and Offence Characteristics

While there are no official data and published studies on clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse (CPSA) from Ghana, local media reports continue to show worrying trends of the phenomenon. We drew on 73 media reports from January 2000 to March 2019, to describe the offence characteristics and profiles of th...

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Autores principales: Quarshie, Emmanuel Nii-Boye, Davies, Priscilla Ayebea, Acharibasam, Jeremiah Wezenamo, Owiredua, Christiana, Atorkey, Prince, Quarshie, Daniel Annang, Quarshie, Sandra Naa-Shasha
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9314302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34545455
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-021-01430-3
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author Quarshie, Emmanuel Nii-Boye
Davies, Priscilla Ayebea
Acharibasam, Jeremiah Wezenamo
Owiredua, Christiana
Atorkey, Prince
Quarshie, Daniel Annang
Quarshie, Sandra Naa-Shasha
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Acharibasam, Jeremiah Wezenamo
Owiredua, Christiana
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description While there are no official data and published studies on clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse (CPSA) from Ghana, local media reports continue to show worrying trends of the phenomenon. We drew on 73 media reports from January 2000 to March 2019, to describe the offence characteristics and profiles of the perpetrators and survivors of CPSA in Ghana. The findings showed females aged 10–19 as predominant survivors. The perpetrators were all males found guilty of lone rape, incest, defilement, indecent assault, sodomy, attempted rape, or gang rape. A preventive measure could involve streamlining the recruitment, training, and leadership structures of the church.
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spelling pubmed-93143022022-07-27 Clergy-Perpetrated Sexual Abuse in Ghana: A Media Content Analysis of Survivors, Offenders, and Offence Characteristics Quarshie, Emmanuel Nii-Boye Davies, Priscilla Ayebea Acharibasam, Jeremiah Wezenamo Owiredua, Christiana Atorkey, Prince Quarshie, Daniel Annang Quarshie, Sandra Naa-Shasha J Relig Health Original Paper While there are no official data and published studies on clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse (CPSA) from Ghana, local media reports continue to show worrying trends of the phenomenon. We drew on 73 media reports from January 2000 to March 2019, to describe the offence characteristics and profiles of the perpetrators and survivors of CPSA in Ghana. The findings showed females aged 10–19 as predominant survivors. The perpetrators were all males found guilty of lone rape, incest, defilement, indecent assault, sodomy, attempted rape, or gang rape. A preventive measure could involve streamlining the recruitment, training, and leadership structures of the church. Springer US 2021-09-20 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9314302/ /pubmed/34545455 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-021-01430-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Quarshie, Emmanuel Nii-Boye
Davies, Priscilla Ayebea
Acharibasam, Jeremiah Wezenamo
Owiredua, Christiana
Atorkey, Prince
Quarshie, Daniel Annang
Quarshie, Sandra Naa-Shasha
Clergy-Perpetrated Sexual Abuse in Ghana: A Media Content Analysis of Survivors, Offenders, and Offence Characteristics
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title_full Clergy-Perpetrated Sexual Abuse in Ghana: A Media Content Analysis of Survivors, Offenders, and Offence Characteristics
title_fullStr Clergy-Perpetrated Sexual Abuse in Ghana: A Media Content Analysis of Survivors, Offenders, and Offence Characteristics
title_full_unstemmed Clergy-Perpetrated Sexual Abuse in Ghana: A Media Content Analysis of Survivors, Offenders, and Offence Characteristics
title_short Clergy-Perpetrated Sexual Abuse in Ghana: A Media Content Analysis of Survivors, Offenders, and Offence Characteristics
title_sort clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse in ghana: a media content analysis of survivors, offenders, and offence characteristics
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9314302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34545455
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-021-01430-3
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