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Sexual victimization is a major societal issue that has unlimited short-term and long-term consequences on an individual's mental, emotional, physical, psychological, and reproductive health. The present study aimed to identify the factors contributing to sexual assault among children with autism, including autism spectrum-related, lack of sexual education-related, and perpetrator-related factors. This cross-sectional study used an online self-administered questionnaire involving autism specialists in Jordan to measure the reasons for sexual assault. We included seventy-seven participants, of which 45 percent were males, and 55 percent were females. Overall, all reasons in the three dimensions had high levels (Mean: 3.29±0.31). Characteristics of a sex offender and autism traits were high-degree reasons with means of 3.43±0.36 and 3.46±0.33, respectively. The study identifies autism traits, particularly difficulty in …