Abstract
Objective:
to describe the reports of sexual violence against children and adolescents at school, in Brazil, from 2010 to 2014.
Methods:
a descriptive study on the characteristics of the victims, the event, the aggressor and the attendance among the records of compulsory notification of sexual violence against children (0-9 years) and adolescents (10-19 years) at school; we used data from the Notification of Injury Information System (Sinan).
Results:
2,226 reports of sexual violence occurred at school, of which 1,546 (69.5%) were children and 680 (30.5%) were adolescents; the average age of the victims was 7.4 years and the median age was 6 years; prevalence of female victims (63.8%) and, most of the time, the aggressor was male (88.9%).
Conclusion:
children and adolescents are exposed to sexual violence at school, a place that supposedly should guarantee protection, healthy development and safety for schoolchildren.
Keywords:
Sex Offenses; Mandatory Reporting; School Health; Child Abuse, Sexual; Epidemiology, Descriptive