1. In 88% of families where children have been physically abused, there were reports of animal abuse.   Source: DeViney, Dickert, and Lockwood, 1983
   

2. Children with a history of sexual abuse are significantly more likely to have been cruel to animals.  Source: Friedrich, W.N., April 1992.
   

3. 40% of men who were sexually abused as children also report having sexual contact with animals. Source:  Ressler, Burgess, and Douglas, 1988                          
   

Information about extreme animal cruelty - ritual killing, torture and mutilation, and sexual abuse of animals - is rarely discussed in public forums.  When faced with crimes of this nature responders are seldom prepared.  As a result, the true extent and nature of the crime is often not investigated or fully reported, which means perpetrators are not fully sentenced and the cycle continues.

THE TRUTH ABOUT ANIMAL SEXUAL ASSAULT