ABSTRACT

The sexual abuse of children causes both physical and emo-tional effects and in this kind of cases, anogenital trauma fin-dings are investigated primarily. In a sexual action that involves the child, although it’s not commonly seen, sexually transmit-ted diseases and the interpretation of the abuse related painting related that made by child during the physiological evaluation are important in the diagnosis.

For this purpose a 13 year old boy who is diagnosed as anogenital herpes is reported with the paintings that are made by him during the physiological evaluation this support abuse.

Keywords: Sexually abused children, herpes simplex virus, human figure drawings