2013-09-192013-09-192012http://hdl.handle.net/11212/118http://cdn.intechopen.com/pdfs/33661/InTech-How_do_we_recognize_recent_sexual_abuse_in_children_lessA diagnosis of sexual abuse in children is being made increasingly in France and in all Western countries. Sexual abuses in France represent a third of all cases of maltreatment 1. In children less than 10 years of age, discovery of the circumstances varies according to the situations experienced by the adolescents. Stories can involve silence or a revelation by indirect signs or consequences of abuses. To approach this diagnosis, we will successively address three aspects: the usual circumstances of the revelation or evocation of this diagnosis, a speech and behavioral side, and a clinical examination and its difficultiespdfFranceAbuse-sexualBest Practices-Medical AssessmentInternational ResourcesText