MUET 800/4 (WRITING)

Answer Scheme for Question 1
a) Title : Types of Child Abuse and Its Perpetrators
b) Overview
The graph shows four types of child abuse in 1995, 2000 and 2005 while the table shows the perpetrators identified in 1995 and 2005.
c) General trend
Sexual abuse cases are generally higher in number compared to physical abuses. The perpetrators are mostly known to the victims.
d) Analysis
i) Rape : The number of rape cases fluctuated from 1995 to 2005. There was an increase of 400 rape cases from 1995 to 2000. However, there was a drop of about 200 cases in 2005.
ii)Incest : There was a gradual increase about 200 cases in 1995 to 550 in 2005.
iii) Molestation : There was a gradual decrease from 1000 cases in 1995 to 750 cases in 2005.
iv) Physical Abuse : Number of cases slightly increased from 1995 to 2000 by 70 cases and remained constant at 180 cases in 2005.
v) Perpetrators : The number of child abuse generally increased with parents being the highest. It doubled from 450 in 1995 to 900 in 2005.Cases involving other perpetrators showed an increase of between 20 and 25 percent from 1995 to 2005.
e) Synthesis
Incest cases increased gradually from 1995 to 2005 as the number of cases involving parents and relatives went up. The number of incest cases correlates with the number of parents and relatives as perpetrators. There were more cases involving friends who abused children compared to strangers.
f) Conclusion
People guilty of child abuse were mostly those related to the children.