[Sex crimes and forensic sexology: analytic study]

Most victims of sexual violence tended to at the IML (Forensic Medicine Institute) are female (94.14%) and predominantly under 18 years of age (72.39%). 60.67% filed a complaint for rape. Out of these cases, 44.63% presented a complete hymen and only in 13.30% of the cases a characterized rape was attested to. 21.38% filed a complaint for seduction. Out of these, 78.05% were between 14 and 18 years of age, and 67.18% of them presented their hymens with non-recent ruptures. In only 9.37% of the complaints for seduction the hymen presented recent ruptures. The cases with complaints of libidinous acts other than carnal conjunction represented 17.95%, predominantly male (56.65%) and under 14 years of age (83.33%). The complaints could be confirmed in only 30% of the cases. 91.83% were anal coitus. As for the time elapsed between the assault and the examination, 11.20% showed up within the first 24 hours; 44.79% within 1 to 7 days; 8.07% within 7 to 15 days and 30.21% after 15 days. In short, just about half of the cases showed up for examination in the first week. Therefore, the authors conclude that there is a low positiveness in the examinations, related to several aspects such as the small percentage of victims that seek the IML in time, the lack of traces, the lack of concepts and the difficulty of conforming the cases to the law.