Sexual abuse in homeschooling situations is compounded by the fact that children homeschooled by sexually abusive parents do not have access to age-appropriate sex education that might give them the tools needed to understand and report their own abuse. In some especially isolated families, incest and rape takes place without the children understanding that what is happening is wrong. In other cases, children know that what is happening to them is very wrong and want it to stop, but lack access to trusted adults who might be able to help them. When sexually abused children are homeschooled by their abuser, they may literally have no place of escape. In some cases, they may commit suicide.
Homeschooled children who suffer from sexual abuse are often hindered both by their own ignorance and by their lack of contact with individuals they can trust.
Sexual abuse played a role in each of the following cases in the HIC database:
- Kaya Centeno, and 4 siblings
- 2 Girls by Terry Miles
- Girl by Alisa Andrews
- 6 Children of Mary Rowles and Alice Jenkins
- Takoda Collins
- 5 Children of Evansburg man
- Girl by Dwight Bainbridge and Jessica Brambilla
- 3 Children of Kevan and Stacy Thoman
- 4 Children by Jordan Otis and Tiffany Walsh
- Martha Peight
- Megan Walls, and 3 siblings
- Children of Brian Keene
- Angel Dwyer
- 11 Children of Machelle Hobson
- Sanaa Cunningham
- Girl by Ryan Adams
- Daughter of Randall Pruitt
- Nevaeh Miller
- Children by Jeremy Costley
- 3 Children of Arthur and Jenny Peterman
- Children of Swansea man
- Boy by Jennifer Franklin and Randell Howell
- Jessica Willis
- Boy by David Eidens
- Boy by Melvin Bledsoe and Joy Anderson
- Daughter of Alan and Aimee Friz
- 6 Children of Sara Anne and Jonathan Woody
- Alysha Quate, and 2 siblings
- 13 Children of Anna Marie Lloyd
- Elizabeth Thomas
- Wesley Jordan
- Daughter of Jerald Hall
- Boy by RCMP officer
- 7 Children of Austin and Annie Wiggin
- Girl by Robert Wyatt
- 5 Children of the ‘Springs Monster’
- Girl by Harold Stone
- 14 Children of Daniel and Jenise Spurgeon
- 2 Girls by Nicholas Frede
- 12 Children by Lee Kaplan
- Children of Lev Tahor
- 3 Children by Timothy and Esten Ciboro
- Girl by Rob and Marie Johnson
- Tina Anderson
- 8 Children of Jondrew Lachaux and Kellie Phillips
- Isaiah Torres
- Sarah, Chris, Rebecca, and Daniel Smith
- K.B. by Robert Sanders
- 4 Children of David and ReJeana Moss
- 9 Children of James and Lucinda Haskin
- Pridine Fru
- Stacy and Jeremy Beckman
- 4 Children by Daniel Sweetman
- Amber Dawn Lee, and 10 children by Arvin Shreeve
- A.S. and L.S. by Wayne Bent
- 3 Boys by Douglas Myers
- Aziza Kibibi, and 7 siblings
- 7 Children of Jeffrey and Danita York
- 5 Children of Jessica Banks
- 4 Children of Sylvia and Michael Wenger
- Children by Tony Alamo
- 28 Children of Kathy and Dan Blackburn
- 4 Children of John and Margie Cantrell
- Jackie Zudis
- Daughter of Kevin and Theresa Carothers
- Boy by Michael Krause
- Children by George Johnston, 4 others
- 16 children of Richard Jay Swank
- Daughter of Arletha and Anthony Hopkins
- Siblings of Andrew Wells
- 24 children of Paul and Paula Dunham
- Rainbow Lord, and 2 siblings
- Helen Wells
- Children of Samuel Thomas Patrick and Debra Lynn Patrick
- Dozens of children by Dwight "Malachi" York
- 7 Children of Thomas Halbesleben and Jessica Halbesleben
- 2 children of Arthur and Lori Allain
- Desirae, Deondra, and Melody Brown
- Anna Farmer
- 6 children of Lora and Aubrey Thomas
- Girl by Raul Ochoa
- Girl by the Jackson family
- 4 children of Juan Carlos Sanchez and Bobbi Sue Pack
- Lindsay Tornambe and Others by Victor A. Barnard
- Boy by Ixchel Maybury
- Joseph Chaney
- Lauren Kavanaugh, and 5 siblings
- Shenna Grimm
- Conrad and Ricky Morales
- Boy by Merideth Johnson Vincent
- Girl by James Monson
- Child by Malcolm Fraser
- 3 Children by William Flynn Walker
- Boy by Joseph Maddock
- 3 Children of Fernando and Sophia Richter
- 1 Child of Rene Tibucio Valenzuela
- Elizabeth Smart
- Jaycee Dugard and 2 Daughters
- Jessyca Mullenberg
- Shawn Hornbeck
- Two Children of Mother and J.S.
- Child by David Allen Goddard
- 6 Children of Zion and Glenda Lea Dutro
- 15 Children of Robert Hale (Papa Pilgrim)
- Child of Ardee Verlon Tyler and Penny Sue Tyler
- Child of Todd and Lisa Mortensen
- Esther Combs
- Child of Stephen Douglas James
- 2 Children of Earnest and Windie Perry
- 6 Children of Patrick McMullen
- Rachel L., Jonathan L., and Mary Grace L.
- 3 Children in North Pole, Alaska
- Child of Andrew and Carolyn Mayer
- 2 Children of David and Glenda Kinghorn
- 3 Children of Kenneth H. Brandt
- 16 Children of Marcus Wesson
- Child of Chad Chritton and Melinda Drabek-Chritton
- Child of Robert Caravella and Carol Hann
- Valerie Charlene Lucie