Sexual offenses represent a serious form of violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms. These offenses constitute a specific category, qualified as socially dangerous acts committed with intent and harmful to social relations with regard to the sexual life of an individual. The law of the Republic of Moldova criminalizes more types of sexual offences: rape, violent sexual actions, sexual harassment, approaching children for a sexual purpose, perverse actions, and sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 16. In the article are analyzed the statistical data on crimes related to sexual violence in the Republic of Moldova for the years 2016-2022. The research data present the types of sexual crimes according to the legal qualification, certain trends and particularities in the territorial profile, the prosecution, as well aspects regarding the profile of the victims and the perpetrators, highlighting challenges in the collection and presentation of statistical data, the legal qualification and prosecution of these crimes.