TYPES OF ABUSE

This form of abuse can take any of the other forms on board as its tool of operation (more than one is common). What makes this a different category is that it is where the trust that one person has placed in another (or group, organisation, or whatever) is betrayed to make gains of a personal or professional nature. Included in this are where a company places trust in an employee and gives that person certain rights (including access to premises) which is then used for gain by that person through theft or malicious damage. It also includes the aspect where trust is placed in a professional (such as a doctor, lawyer, investor, accountant and the like) only to have that professional use that trust for their own gain. Sexual gain and monetary gain are the two best known breaches of such trust but are certainly not the only ones. The victims not only suffer the obvious way but there is a mental, social and emotional suffering as well because of this abuse of trust that they had placed in the perpetrator. Many victims retain a mistrust in that area for life. Depending upon the actual method of abuse used to breach that trust  as to whether or not the actual abuse is illegal or not.