The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP, 1999) defines child sexual abuse as “contacts or interactions between a child and an older or more knowledgeable child or adult (stranger, sibling or person in a position of authority such as a parent or caretaker) when the child is being used as an object for the older child’s or adult’s sexual needs. These contacts or interactions are carried out against the child using force, trickery, bribes, threats or pressure."
Child sexual exploitation involves child sexual abuse or other sexualised acts using children that involves an exchange of some kind
(e.g., affection, food, drugs, and shelter) (UNODC, 2015).