Sexual Offences Victim & Perpetrator Under 18 - 1367/19

Date Responded 06 January 2020

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You asked:

In each of the last five full financial years please, how many sexual offences have been reported to your force where both the alleged perpetrator and the alleged victim were under the age of 18?
Please provide information on how many of these reports resulted in further police action.
Could you provide a breakdown for how many offences were reported where the alleged perpetrator was 11 or younger? Can you also provide information on:
How many of the total reported sexual offences, identified in point 1 above, occurred on school premises?
For the reports of sexual offences occurring on school premises, could you please provide a breakdown of the types of alleged offences recorded (e.g. sexual assault, rape etc).

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Corporate Development Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

*January to November 2019 only

2015	101
2016	195
2017	388
2018	471
2019*	458

2. All sexual offences are investigated. The below shows the outcomes recorded against the crime.

	Charge/Summons/ Caution/YOT	Other Outcome
2015	5	96
2016	16	179
2017	18	370
2018	17	454
2019*	7	451

2015	10
2016	27
2017	60
2018	61
2019*	65

2015	11
2016	35
2017	54
2018	67
2019*	74

	Other Serious Sexual Offences	Other Sexual Offences	Rape
2015	77	7	17
2016	124	31	40
2017	237	67	84
2018	245	118	108
2019*	241	108	109

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