More than 90 percent of perpetrators are male. It has also been proven that the majority of perpetrators were, in fact, victims of Child Sexual Abuse. These individuals identify with their aggressor and as they reach adulthood transfer from the role of victim to the role of perpetrator. This does NOT, however, mean that every abuse victim will become a perpetrator. Some people don't.
Some victims live their lives keeping the secret.
Many do so because they feel a sense of misplaced guilt and shame, feeling that they somehow caused the abuse to happen. They never seek the help that they need to realize that they are, in fact, victims and did nothing wrong. Many of these victims spend their lives in depression and depression related disorders. Some suffer sexual dysfunction while others may become sexually promiscuous, feeling that they are only worthwhile sexually. The effects of unresolved victimization are varied.