Prevalence and pattern of genital injuries among adolescent rape victims attending Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, South East Nigeria

Ohayi, Samuel Robsam; Ezugwu, Euzebus Chinonye

doi:10.1080/01443615.2018.1474189

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“…Ohayi and Ezugwu 26 also found the most common site of injury in assaulted adolescents was the hymen and followed by posterior fourchette, similar to our data 26 . This may be due to the number of cases without previous sexual experience (Ohayi and Ezugwu 26 : 60.3%; this study: 47.6%). In addition, White and McLean 22 reported the same, with the most common incidents of genital area injury being hymen, fourchette, and vulva, and vagina.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

“…Previous studies of assaulted female adolescents using macroscopic examination, excluding redness and swelling, had genital injury rates of approximately 27.3% to 54.4%. 14,22,[24][25][26][27] These articles also had lower anogenital/genital injury prevalence than our results. This may be because of variations in physical violence during the sexual activities, whether the adolescents had previous sexual experience, variations in female genital anatomy, 28 lubrication, and body position during intercourse.…”

Section: Genital Injury Prevalencecontrasting

confidence: 71%

“…Having sexual intercourse experience might make the genitalia and anus remodel and become more dilatable and elastic 7 . Ohayi and Ezugwu 26 found no history of prior sexual intercourse to be a risk factor for genital injury (37.18% vs 7.7%, P < 0.001), whereas White and McLean 22 found it to be a risk factor for hymenal injury (62.3% vs 46.3%, P < 0.001).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The reports of White and McLean 22 and Ohayi and Ezugwu 26 on assaulted adolescents had a nongenital injury rate of 50.9% and 32.1%, respectively. 22,26 Because we included all severities of nonanogenital injury when calculating its prevalence (meaning minimal injuries such as scratches were included), it is possible that this prevalence rate does not reflect actual severity. We observed no serious bodily injury and no relationship between nonanogenital injury and anogenital prevalence, type, and site of injury.…”

Section: Nonanogenital Injurymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Comparative Study of Acute Anogenital Injury Between Consensual and Nonconsensual Postmenarche Adolescents

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Wongwittayapanich

2021

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In Thailand, sexual activity involving those under the legal age of consent may be legally and medically problematic, even if it is consensual. Thus, differentiating anogenital injury characteristics that occur during consensual versus nonconsensual acts with adolescent female subjects could aid legal advocates and improve health care and social support for these patients. Our study included postmenarche female patients having acute anogenital injuries after consensual and nonconsensual penetration. We found that nonconsenting patients had more cases of anogenital injury than consenting (69.8% vs 55.5%), with at least 1 abrasion, contusion, laceration, labia major or minor injury, and external or internal site injury. Both consensual and nonconsensual cases had the same common sites for injury type, reflecting the same injury mechanism; prior sexual intercourse was a significant protective factor against some anogenital injury prevalence, types, and sites for both groups. Adolescents forced into nonconsensual acts had more nonanogenital injuries. Looking at factors such as age, prior sexual activity history, and use of condom and/or contraceptive pills, it is very clear that early sexual education, particularly around consent, is critically needed in Thailand for the best interests of adolescents and children so that they and/or their guardians can access the health and legal resources required.

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confidence: 88%

Section: Genital Injury Prevalencecontrasting

confidence: 71%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Nonanogenital Injurymentioning

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“…In the first place, one of the vital elements that must be considered to ground a conviction on rape is penetration. The penetration of the vagina by the penis is an indispensable/essential element/ingredient of the crime rape (Ohayi & Ezugwu 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

A Jurisprudential and Socio-Cultural Reconsideration of the Rape-Phenonmenon

Edor

2020

j. sosialisasi.

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For sundry reasons, every human community is replete with aberrations of varying magnitude. Some aberrations become so through the criminalisation process by society, some other human acts are considered ontologically uncongenial to human nature. Driving on the left lane of the road in Nigeria, for example, is a traffic offence. It is so because Nigerian road traffic experts consider it convenient to keep right while driving, thereby criminalising driving on the left lane of the road. The aberration of driving on the left lane of the road cannot be said to be adorned with ontological colouration. The phenomenon of rape is considered an ontological aberration in this article and repugnant to human nature. Both the victim and the perpetrator of rape are exposed to social and psychological repercussions. Unfortunately, some of the repercussions on the victim of rape are unnecessary, as they are cosmetically imposed by society, and there is no necessary connection between the aberration and the social consequences. Some of the social and psychological consequences of the phenomenon of rape are considered in this work, and it is argued herein that the social consequences imposed on the victim of rape are unnecessary, and that they unnecessarily compound the traumas that the rape-victim suffers. It is, therefore, suggested herein that some cultural perceptions among most Nigerian tribes should be reviewed to ameliorate the repercussions of rape in the rape-victim.

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The prevalence of genital injuries in post-pubertal females presenting for forensic examination after reported sexual violence: a systematic review

Kane,

Kennedy,

Eogan

2023

Int J Legal Med

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Prevalence and pattern of genital injuries among adolescent rape victims attending Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, South East Nigeria

Cited by 6 publications

References 18 publications

Comparative Study of Acute Anogenital Injury Between Consensual and Nonconsensual Postmenarche Adolescents

Comparative Study of Acute Anogenital Injury Between Consensual and Nonconsensual Postmenarche Adolescents

A Jurisprudential and Socio-Cultural Reconsideration of the Rape-Phenonmenon

The prevalence of genital injuries in post-pubertal females presenting for forensic examination after reported sexual violence: a systematic review

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