US EditionMore than 600 Infants Between 0 and 2 Years of Age Were Reported to Have Been Sexually Abused in 2024
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A total of 73,992 victims of sexual and gender-based violence were received in one of these hospital units last year, almost 9,000 more than in 2023.
The Shock Figure of a Report: More than 600 Babies Were Victims of Sexual Violence in France in 2024
The issue of sexual violence against babies and very young children has resurfaced in recent months.
Every year, new data point to the extent to which sexual violence against children remains massive, but the latest report of the Miprof reveals an even more difficult reality to sustain: in 2024, more than 600 babies aged 0 to 2 years were welcomed into a medical-judicial unit (UMJ) for acts of sexual violence. A statistic that is upsetting, because it concerns children too young to speak, to testify, to alert themselves.
On Thursday, November 20, 2025, the Interministerial Mission for the Protection of Women published a damning report on violence against minors in 2024. It reveals, in particular, that more than six hundred infants were victims of sexual violence.
In France, in 2024, 614 infants were victims of sexual violence, deplores a report by the Miprof on 20 November 2025. Figures from the data collected by the Ministry of Health.
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