Forty percent of female juveniles in custody report being victims of sexual abuse.
Three fifths of juveniles in custody report having experienced some degree of childhood abuse.
The highest sexual assault rate was 5.36 per 100 Minnesota girls aged 13-17, meaning 1 in 19 girls was assaulted.
![Young people are especially likely to become victims of sexual assault. More than half of the total costs [to Minnesota] ($4.1 billion) resulted from sexual assaults on children aged 0-17.Assaults of females accounted for 76% of the sexual assault costs.
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Young people are especially likely to become victims of sexual assault. More than half of the total costs [to Minnesota] ($4.1 billion) resulted from sexual assaults on children aged 0-17.
Assaults of females accounted for 76% of the sexual assault costs.
The best estimates put the prevalence of sexual abuse of boys at just over 5 per cent of the population and girls at 25 per cent.
Indigenous children are approximately seven times more likely to be the subject of a substantiated allegation of abuse. This rate has more than doubled over the last decade.
Almost three times as many Indigenous than non-Indigenous children were diagnosed with an STI, despite Indigenous people making up 3% of the total population.
