Domestic and sexual abuse statistics (FOI)

Request

Please may I have the statistics over the past five years including 2020 for sexual and domestic abuse reports through the Police or Children's Protection services.

For clarity; I am looking for both ‘domestic violence reports’ and ‘sexual offence reports’ within a domestic situation, involving children under the age of 18 years.

Response

The table below shows figures from the States of Jersey Police.

Domestic reports are only recorded when the individuals involved are aged 16 or over. The below figures include domestic incidents where a child was also present.

Sexual offences against children are recorded separately outside the Domestic Violence scheme. Please see previous responses for these figures.

Online sexual offences against children (FOI)

Sexual offences by age of victim under 18 years old (FOI)

Cases of Child abuse

Exemption applied:

Art 23: Information accessible to applicant by other means:

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for the information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.