Crying Out for Help: Victims of Sexual Abuse.. By Hwaa Irfan Writer, counselor, editor - Egypt The domestic environment does not seem to have escaped the growing violence that we are experiencing in the world today. Violence trickles downwards whether it is internalized or expressed. The young have become victims to that expression in a form most violent – sexual abuse. Lost and alone with the horror, many have turned to Cyber-counselor at Islamonline.net for help. Most of those victims are Muslims from the US with a minority from India, Australia, Bahamas Caribbean), Lebanon, and the UK. They have experienced abuse mostly at the hands of relatives although some have been abused by in-laws, a family friend, a neighbor, strangers, and in one case a mother sexually abused her son. Out of those questions received 60% of the questioners involved cases of sexual abuse, 6.60% involved rape, 13.33% involved rape and sexual abuse, and 20% involved physical abuse as well as sexual abuse.