Sexual maltreatment

Description

In adults, forced or coerced sexual acts or sexual acts with someone who is unable to consent; in children, sexual acts involving a child that are intended to provide sexual gratification to an adult. The category is applied to the victim of the maltreatment, not the perpetrator.

Index terms

Sexual maltreatment

Sibling codes

PJ20 – Physical maltreatment
PJ22 – Psychological maltreatment
PJ2Y – Other specified maltreatment
PJ2Z – Maltreatment, unspecified

Foundation entity

Sexual maltreatment – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1192102653

Allowed postcoordination axes

Part of: 23: External causes of morbidity or mortality