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Haydeh Faraji, a psychologist making explanations about increased rates of sexual abuse in recent years, stated that the sexual exploitation activities against the children were mostly planned in advance and that the abusers had already recognized the children and between 60 and 70 percent of abusers are their relatives, teachers and neighbors.
 
Faraji said: “Abuser prepares a time to get close to the abusive child and to take the action of abuse. He usually introduces the act of abuse to the child as a game. These people gradually make the child systematically insensitive, with inappropriate behaviors, open pictures, and pornography. When they are faced with the acts of abuse, they underestimate the seriousness of the incident, claiming that the child that they systematically maade insensitive, is eager, willing, and encourages. In fact, this method followed by abusers is a psychological technique. In this technique, the person is progressively faced with anxiety and fear, and over time, this anxiety/fear is alleviated or eliminated.”
 
“PREVELENCE OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN CHILDHOOD IS 10-40 PERCENT”
 
Pedophilia is defined as the recurrent occurrence of intense, sexually stimulating fantasies, sexual impulses, or behaviors related to sexual activity with a child or children who have not entered adolescence, for at least 6 months.
Commenting on the issue Expert Clinical Psychologist from Istanbul Gelisim University Haydeh Faraji said: “It is estimated that only 15 percent of the sexual abuse against children is reported. According to the other groups of sexual assaults, pedophilic individuals are in the older age group and they are between 40 and 70, and the prevalence of sexual abuse in childhood is 10-40 percent and 53 percent of the victims of sexual abuse are under 14 years of age.”
 
“ACTIONS ARE PLANNED IN ADVANCE”

She stated that it is not possible to determine the prevalence of pedophilia cases because pedophiliC individuals do their activities undercover and do not apply for their treatment, and emphasized that the majority of these actions were planned in advance.

Faraji added: “Pedophilic individuals have limited ability to communicate with others and to establish emotional closeness, inward-looking and immature characteristics, both in and out of the family”.
 
“SEXUAL TENDENCY CANNOT BE CHANGED”

Faraji stated that the goal of treatment of pedophilic individuals is not to change sexual orientation to children. “The goal of treatment is to reduce the rates of re-engagement. There is a decrease in sexual desire and desire after long-term treatment, but there is no difference in individuals' sexual orientation.”
 
“ABUSE CAN BE PREVENTED BY LAWS”

Stating that the most effective way to eliminate sexual abuse is to prevent its formation, Faraji said: “As the prosecution and punishment of pedophilic individuals will prevent the reprocessing of the crime, they must be identified and recorded. To prevent abuse it is needed to recognize the characteristics of pedophile, to identify the factors causing such a tendency”.