According to Chi Hui-jung, executive director of the Garden of Hope Foundation, "Sexual abuse of children is a family secret." Chi points out that sexual abuse is different in important ways from other types of child abuse. It leaves no obvious outward scars. Unless a family member reports it, no one outside the family is likely to know about it.
「兒童性虐待是家庭秘密」，勵馨社會福利事業基金會執行長紀惠容指出，性虐待與其他虐待方式不同，沒有明顯外傷，除非是家中成員願意揭露，否則外人不容易發現。