Government of Jersey

Sexual offences against children (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 01 July 2019.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

From the States of Jersey Police, I would like:

The number of recorded sexual offences against children aged under 18, for the period 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018, broken down by age and gender of victims (by individual year of age where possible)

The number of recorded sexual offences against under 18s for the above time frame that had a cyber flag attached.

The number of recorded sexual offences against children aged under 18, for the period 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019, broken down by age and gender of victims (by individual year of age where possible)

The number of recorded sexual offences against under 18s for the above time frame that had a cyber flag attached.

Response

Numbers broken down by age and gender of the victims are, in most instances, very low. In order to protect the identity of these young vulnerable victims, numbers less than 5 (<5) are not being disclosed as this information is absolutely exempt under Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

A and C: Number of recorded sexual offences against children aged under 18
	1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018		1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019
Age	Female victims	Male victims	Female victims	Male victims
0	<5	<5	<5	<5
1	<5	<5	<5	<5
2	<5	<5	<5	<5
3	<5	<5	<5	<5
4	<5	<5	<5	<5
5	<5	<5	<5	<5
6	<5	<5	<5	<5
7	<5	<5	<5	<5
8	<5	<5	<5	<5
9	<5	<5	<5	<5
10	<5	<5	<5	<5
11	<5	<5	<5	<5
12	6	<5	<5	<5
13	7	<5	10	<5
14	15	<5	14	<5
15	7	<5	6	<5
16	7	<5	5	<5
17	7	<5	<5	<5
Total	62	9	57	9
B and D: Number of recorded sexual offences against under 18s recorded as cyber related
	<5		5

Exemption applied

Article 25 Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018]; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.