Forced marriage law 'could stop UK victims
reporting crime'
reporting crime'
Rubie Marie was told her trip to Bangladesh was a holiday, when in fact she was about to be forced to marry a man twice her age
Criminalising forced marriage could stop victims from speaking up if their parents are locked up, campaigners say. While legislation sends a "strong message," a charity working with victims said it also scared off others.
Rubie Marie, 35, who was forced to marry in Bangladesh when she was 15, said: "It is hard because you love your family of course you do... But at the end of the day abuse is abuse."
The Home Office said it was essential victims had confidence to speak out.
Forced marriage became a criminal offence in 2014, but only one case has been brought in Wales since then - with four convictions in total across the UK.
However, the Welsh Government estimates there are up to 100 cases of forced marriage every year.
Rubie Marie was raped almost daily by her husband in Bangladesh after being forced to marry him at the age of 15
In 2018, the forced marriage unit - a joint effort between the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Home Office - gave advice or support in 1,196 UK cases.
Shahien Taj of the Cardiff-based Henna Foundation told BBC Wales Live more prevention work was needed to educate perpetrators, who are often the victims' parents.
The charity said victims often wanted to return to the family home once the situation was resolved. "I don't know a single victim that I've worked with that has said she's ok with the police coming down on parents like a tonne of bricks - all too often they don't want any intervention because of that," said Ms Taj.
Ms Marie, who now lives in the Midlands, said once she was married, she was raped "more or less, every single day" so her new husband could have a child and a ticket to live in the UK.
Rubie Marie was forced to marry a man twice her age after being taken to Bangladesh
The Home Office is consulting on proposals that would legally require those who work closely with young people, such as teachers and social workers, to report suspected cases of forced marriage.
Ms Taj believes forced marriage protection orders are the preferred route - allowing young people to apply to the courts for protection, while keeping the family out of the criminal system.
"We've had eight cases where young women have gone home and been able to move on with their lives," she said.
Samsunear Ali from the charity Bawso said education was key as many parents did not even realise they were breaking the law. "For them they are doing the right thing and that's the only way they know how to reduce the level of shame in the family that this child could potentially bring.
From this it is obvious that the law is needed. You cannot educate parents that making their daughter a child-bride is wrong if it is not against the law. There are too many cultural stigmas arguing against that.
"It's a huge problem in Wales, and it's still not being talked about as much."
She said there were cases in rural Wales where women had no support and they were at greater risk, with forced marriages potentially "going on for generations and nobody knows about it".
Rubie Marie - pictured here aged five - was told her trip to Bangladesh was a holiday
'I was raped every day'
Rubie Marie was born and raised in south Wales. She had a happy childhood but everything changed once she hit puberty.
She was taken to Bangladesh in 1998 at the age of 15 under the pretence of it being a holiday. "We were only supposed to go for six weeks but then it went to two months, then it went to three months, then it got to six months and we all got homesick," she said.
"I asked my father, I said we want to go home. I want to go back to school. I want my friends. But he would say things like 'we spent so much money coming here'… That was his excuse, his cover up, his facade to plan what he was planning which was the marriage.
"I was sitting down having dinner with the whole family and he just came in and he sat down and he started to eat and out of the blue, and I remember it like it was yesterday,
"'Wouldn't it be great if we got Rubie married?' And I was mortified. I was a kid and I had a tantrum. I threw my plate on the floor. I started kicking off, banging the doors, ran into my room screaming, shouting. I just didn't know how to comprehend that information.
"I was put on a bidding system. One of my uncles went and started bidding me. It was horrible. I was treated like a slave. I was in this alien country - I didn't know where to go, where to turn to, didn't know where there was a phone. Nothing."
'I was disowned'
Ms Marie was forced to marry a man twice her age and for her engagement she was "dressed up like a doll". "The house was full of laughing people, you know there was people everywhere trying to come into my room to see me, to have a peek at this new bride," she said.
"And I was just sitting there just thinking 'I'm just an object'. You just got to do what you've got to do and that's it. My vision was just get home, do whatever you need to do to get home."
Once she was married, her new husband wanted a child. "More or less, I'd been raped every single day to get pregnant, so then he's got an official British pathway of coming to Britain because he's got a child. That was their plan," she added.
She got pregnant and came back to Wales to give birth. When the baby was born, she fled: "That brought shame to the family again in their eyes. And I was disowned for a very long time."
Rubie now works as an ambassador, educating people about forced marriage. "Now I'm speaking and talking to the world and sharing in that way of there is light at the end of the tunnel, there is a place for you in this world.
"It's not all doom and gloom. And it's not hell. You've got to turn it around. You've got to find that strength to turn it around and use it to your advantage and make it a happy place otherwise no one's going to do that for you."
A Home Office spokesman said: "We know that forced marriage is often a hidden crime and so it is essential that victims have the confidence to come forward to get the help they need.
"We are seeking views on whether introducing a mandatory reporting duty might help strengthen protections for victims and ensure more perpetrators are brought to justice.
"The consultation is open to everyone and we are particularly interested in hearing from victims and survivors of forced marriage, and professionals with expertise in the issue of forced marriage."
For details of organisations that offer advice and support with forced marriage or honour violence, visit BBC Action Line.
Toronto Islamic school teacher accused of
sexually assaulting boy, 10
sexually assaulting boy, 10
'Everyone here is extremely shocked,' says imam after teacher charged with sexual assault, interference
CBC News (note: this story is dated 28 Feb 2018)
A private school teacher in Scarborough is facing multiple charges after a 10-year-old boy was allegedly taken from the school grounds and sexually assaulted.
Police allege the man, a teacher at the Islamic Foundation of Toronto, took the boy from school property just after 11 a.m. on Feb. 16.
The boy was driven to a location in the Neilson Road and McLevin Avenue area where he was allegedly sexually assaulted, before being returned to the school, police say.
Saleh Momla, 24, of Toronto has been charged with sexual assault and sexual interference.
"Everyone here is extremely shocked and we're just really concerned for all the students," Imam Yusuf Badat told CBC Toronto, who said the teacher is no longer employed at the school.
Badat says the says the school plans to hold workshops in the near future to help ensure students know what abuse looks like and how to report it.
"We don't want any of this to be kept silent if there is another victim," he said. Approximately 2,500 people come in and out of the centre, which includes not only the school but also a mosque.
Const. Allyson Douglas-Cook told CBC Toronto that the parents took exactly the right action by alerting the school and authorities when their child came forward.
"It's very concerning but we use opportunities like this to urge parents to have conversations with their children and to teach their children to trust their instincts," she said.
New details emerge in ‘worst child sexual abuse scandal
in German history’
in German history’
The Local
The partially demolished dwelling of the alleged perpetrator in Lügde. Photo: DPA
Horrific details have come to light in the Lügde trailer park child sexual abuse investigation, including that children were forced to abuse each other.
Earlier in 2019 (2nd story on link), news began to emerge of an organized child pornography ring located at a trailer park in Lügde, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Two men are said to have carried out child sexual abuse, filming the abuse and distributing it online. More than 40 victims have been identified, with the abuse taking place since the 1990s.
Reports in the Westfalen-Blatt have shed further light on the nature of the abuse, including that the accused men forced the children to abuse each other.
A new round of police interviews
A series of interviews with the victims, some of them still children, has taken place over the past weeks. The new information has emerged from these interviews.
Peter Wüller, a lawyer for four of the victims, told the Westfalen-Blatt that reading the victims’ statements was challenging.
“It’s hard to read the children’s statements without emotion,” he said. “If I look at the faces of the little ones and I read what’s been done to them, I feel sick.
“What happened in Lügde is beyond any idea.”
The older of the two men, known as Andreas V (56) due to German privacy standards, worked together with his accomplice Mario S (34) to engage in the activity and produce the videos.
The caravan where some of the alleged abuse is said to have taken place. Image: DPA
‘The largest abuse scandal in German history’
As reported by The Local in April, the case has gripped the nation’s attention over the past two months - both for the severity of the crimes and the subsequent failures of the police investigation.
Police had been alerted to instances of abuse in the caravan park, but failed to properly investigate. Only a handful of phone interviews were undertaken, with no further efforts to follow up on the reports.
The failures did not end there. Once the crimes had been detected, a suitcase full of evidence went missing from a police storage locker.
Two police officers from the Detmold squad were stood down from duty and are being investigated for obstruction of justice offences.
The SPD’s Hartmut Ganzke has previously called for North Rhine-Westphalia's Interior Minister Herbert Reul to resign, calling the incidents “the largest abuse scandal in the history of the country”.
A new investigative team
Wüller has praised the current investigative team, particularly their handling of the victim interview process.
“The children were very sensitively and patiently questioned," he said. "They were able to provide very detailed information and they can easily differentiate between the two main defendants."
Wüller said that the missing evidence was of course problematic, but the detailed and precise nature of the questioning meant that a conviction was likely.
Indonesian tourist charged over alleged child sex abuse videos on phone in Perth
The West Australian
An ABF officer searches the Indonesian tourist’s baggage. Picture: Australian Border Force
A 30-year-old Indonesian tourist has been charged after Australian Border Force officers allegedly found child sexual abuse material on his mobile phone.
ABF officers stopped the man for a baggage examination as he tried to depart Perth on a flight to Denpasar (Bali) yesterday, after a 12-day visit.
The officers allegedly found three videos depicting the sexual abuse of children, and a further two depicting abhorrent sexual activity.
He was charged with attempting to export a prohibited import (child pornography) and attempting to export objectionable goods.
The man appeared in Perth Magistrates Court today and was granted conditional bail to reappear in the same court on May 24.
ABF regional commander for WA Rod O’Donnell said tackling child pornography was an operational priority. “ABF officers have significant powers to search the mobile phones and electronic devices of international travellers and they exercise those powers at airports around the country on a daily basis,” he said.
“Visitors also need to be aware that possession of child exploitation material is viewed very seriously under Australian law.”
The maximum penalty is 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $525,000.
In an unrelated case, a 28-year-old Brazilian man was deported after ABF officers found two videos depicting extreme violence on his mobile phone.
The man arrived on a flight from Denpasar on May 11 and was removed from the country this morning.
Denpasar must be a hotbed for perverts!
Lazy UK detectives jailed after dropping child sex abuse probes to go on dates together
By Sun Reporter
TWO lazy cops have been jailed for dropping child sex abuse investigations so they could go on dates together.
DCs Lee Pollard, 47, and Sharon Patterson, 49, even went for a romantic Chinese meal after she axed a witness interview.
Old Bailey judge Nigel Lickley QC told the ex-Essex Police pair, of Colchester, cases may have been lost because they did not do the “work required”.
Showing ‘contempt’ for sex abuse victims, they forged documents to convince bosses to take no further action against suspects.
Pollard destroyed evidence about a man with ‘disturbing sexual traits’ accused of assaulting an eight-year-old boy.
Patterson cancelled an appointment to gather evidence from social services records so she could get a manicure and have a Chinese meal with Pollard.
The lovers worked for Essex Police's Child Abuse Investigation Team, which faced a huge caseload in the wake of the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal.
Pollard got two years’ jail and Patterson 18 months after being convicted of misconduct at the Old Bailey.
Guam man, who pleaded guilty to child abuse,
gets no prison time
gets no prison time
Jasmine Stole Weiss, Pacific Daily News
A former teacher accused of molesting then-minors and who pleaded guilty to child abuse and official misconduct was sentenced today to a suspended sentence.
He won't have to spend any time behind bars.
The magistrate's complaint states a then 16-year-old girl told police that Mark John San Nicolas Taisipic touched her private parts when she was in fifth grade. She said it happened in a dark classroom when she was stacking papers on a table, court documents state. The indictment also states a second girl was inappropriately touched.
Taisipic was charged in 2014. He was indicted on a charge of second-degree criminal sexual conduct as a first-degree felony.
But Taisipic pleaded to different crimes: three counts of child abuse as misdemeanors and three counts of misdemeanor official misconduct.
At the time he was charged, Taisipic was a teacher for Guam Department of Education.
Taisipic entered into an Alford plea. "Pursuant to the terms of his Alford plea agreement, which the court did accept on December 2018, (Taisipic) does continue to maintain his innocence but enters a guilty plea to the charges set forth in the information filed," said Superior Court Judge Maria Cenzon.
Cenzon said at Friday's sentencing hearing that Taisipic's lawyer, Joshua Walsh, asked for probation while the prosecution sought a three-year prison sentence for Taisipic.
Cenzon decided to sentence Taisipic to three years, with all of that time suspended.
She said Taisipic strictly complied with his court-ordered pretrial release conditions since December 2013. This indicates he'd be a low-risk for re-offending, Cenzon said.
"In this particular case, his conduct does not appear to be a result of any sustained criminal intent," Cenzon said.
She also said that he is caretaker for his family and Taisipic expressed remorse for his conduct.
He will be on supervised probation for the next three years.
Doctors believe Kashmir male accused of raping 3-y/o
is not a minor despite birth certificate
Protesters call for justice in the case of the alleged rape of a three-year-old girl in Kashmir.
© AFP / Tauseef Mustafa
Doctors inspecting the person accused of raping a three-year-old girl in India believe he is around 20-years-old despite a birth cert claiming he was born in 2009. The shocking abuse case has sparked a wave of protests in Kashmir.
The incident took place last Wednesday (3rd story on link) when a neighbor of the victim’s family allegedly lured the child with candy before abducting and then raping her, India Today reports.
The principal of a school subsequently issued a birth certificate for the accused stating that he was born in 2009. That action has triggered widespread anger and demonstrations across the region.
Doctors believe the accused, who is from the town of Sumbal in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, is around 20-years-old. “We are treating the accused as a major and not as a juvenile,” a police official told India’s PTI news agency. “The doctors have given an opinion that he is around 20-years-old,” the official said.
The official added that the principal who issued the birth cert has also been arrested and is being questioned by police.
© AFP / TAUSEEF MUSTAFA
Schools, shops and businesses in the area also reportedly shut their doors in a spontaneous act of solidarity with the victim and her family.
This is how things get done on the subcontinent! And no other way.
Child fatally assaulted by father in Japan, was earlier released from custody despite his sexual abuse of her
CHIBA
A 10-year-old girl who died in January after a series of apparent assaults by her father had been released from protective custody despite his suspected sexual abuse of her, local government sources said Tuesday.
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| Mia Kurihara |
She said her underwear also slipped down, and when she told him to stop and pulled her pants up, Kurihara told her that other family members "will notice if you say (something) like that," according to the sources.
During the interviews conducted while she was in protective custody at the Kashiwa child welfare center, the girl also gave accounts of her father's physical abuse, such as covering her mouth and nose by his hands while she was asleep.
The center ended her protective custody, even though a doctor said she had been subjected to assaults as well as sexual abuse and suffered post-traumatic stress disorder. The national and prefectural governments are now looking into whether the decision at the time was appropriate.
I can answer that from halfway around the world - NO!
Mia was taken into protective custody at the center on Nov. 7, 2017 after she reported in a school questionnaire that her father "bullied" her.
But as she started saying she wanted to go home, the center concluded the abuse was not serious and ended her protection as of Dec. 27 that year so she could stay with relatives. She was allowed to return home on Feb. 28, 2018.
The girl's 32-year-old mother Nagisa Kurihara has also been indicted on a charge of assisting in assault.
The case has revealed an apparent lack of coordination among authorities on the situation and questionable responses.
Officials of local governments apparently failed to share information on the family despite the abuse allegations and a local education board provided a copy of Mia's complaint to her father. Welfare officials also failed to check on the girl's safety after her protective custody ended.
Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) admits scheme for child abuse victims not working
Claimants, abused in State schools, must show abuser
was the subject of a previous complaint
Marie O'Halloran
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said there was ‘no worse crime than one against a child and no worse form of crime or a crime that is more unspeakable than child abuse’. File photograph: Michelle Devane/PA Wire
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has admitted that the ex-gratia scheme established for victims of child sexual abuse while they were pupils in State schools is not working.
He told the Dáil “a scheme in which all applicants are rejected is one which is not working”.
It was established in 2015 when shortly after a 15-year legal campaign, Louise O’Keeffe received a judgment at the European Court of Human Rights that the State was vicariously liable for the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her former national school principal, Leo Hickey, in the 1970s.
The State’s interpretation of the judgment required claimants for the ex-gratia scheme, who were abused while in State schools, to show that their abuser was the subject of a previous complaint.
Wow! That had to keep the numbers down!
No application for redress under the scheme has yet been accepted and Mr Justice Iarflaith O’Neill is assessing 20 appeals where those applications were rejected and looking at whether the State’s interpretation of the judgment was too narrow.
“Fundamentally what is behind this is whether the State could have acted in some way and did not do so. I do not have the term which is used to hand but it is on the basis of a failure to act when it could have done so,” Mr Varadkar said.
It appears to still be the case!
‘Cruelly treated’
He was responding to Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin who said those who were abused had been “shamefully, cynically and cruelly treated by the Government”.
Mr Martin said “the ultimate cruelty is to announce a redress scheme knowing that in effect the victims will never pass the test of prior complaint. That is the cruellest thing to do to any victim of sexual abuse and someone who has been through that trauma.”
He asked when the judge’s report would be published and “when will the issue of prior complaint be removed once and for all”.
He said it was “an appalling insult to suggest that the only way a person is worthy of inclusion in a redress scheme is for someone who had been abused previously to have reported it to the authorities”.
Mr Varadkar said there was “no worse crime than one against a child and no worse form of crime or a crime that is more unspeakable than child abuse”.
He said he did not have a date for receipt of Mr Justice O’Neill’s report but he had requested one. “I understand there may be a separate judicial review which may hold up Mr Justice O’Neill’s work.”
Minister for Education Joe McHugh also acknowledged that the scheme was “not working in that of the 50 applications only five are due for assessment, with the remaining 45 now having been refused. As I said, there is something wrong with this scheme and we need to consider how we can put things right.”
Barred
Later Sinn Féin TD Maurice Quinlivan said the Government had “steadfastly stood in the way of justice” for such victims of abuse. He said he worked closely with Vocads (Victims of Child Abuse in Day Schools) and those abused in Creagh Lane national school in Limerick. These men were “barred from accessing compensation for their abuse”.
Mr Quinlivan pointed to a Dáil motion in July last year when the Government was defeated by 84 votes to 40 on a motion to allow victims of primary school sexual abuse to seek redress on the same basis as victims of residential institutional abuse but he said the Government ignored it. He said that including victims of abuse in primary schools would cost about €15 million.
The Teacher's Pet podcast inspires Aussie women to come forward with allegations of sexual abuse by teachers
ABC Mid North Coast By Sarah Maunder
Debra Hood says she was targeted by one her teachers when she was a student in the 1980s.
(ABC News: Sarah Maunder)
Three women, inspired by the revelations in The Teacher's Pet podcast, have come forward with allegations of sexual abuse by teachers while they were students at a high school on the NSW mid-north coast.
The school, which cannot be named for legal reasons, is in the coastal city of Port Macquarie.
Debra Hood, now 55 years of age, was 17 when the abuse occurred in the early 1980s. "My perpetrator was particularly good at grooming. At the time, of course, I didn't recognise it as such," Ms Hood said.
Ms Hood said her perpetrator became her friend and offered to help her with her studies. "My home-life was not a place where I could study. He came to my house, introduced himself to my parents," she said.
Ms Hood said the relationship progressed from there. "It may be a kiss on the cheek, or a hug, and gradually those expectations became more intimate until eventually sex was involved," she said.
Ms Hood said she had lived with the shame and guilt of the experience throughout her life, but after listening to The Teacher's Pet podcast she was inspired to tell her story.
The Teacher's Pet is a podcast by The Australian's Hedley Thomas that investigated the alleged murder of Lynette Dawson in the early 1980s.
In the series, it was revealed Lynette's husband Chris Dawson, a teacher at Sydney's Cromer High School, was in a relationship with one of his students.
The podcast also details a "culture" of abuse against Cromer High School students by their teachers in the 1980s.
Cromer High School - North Sydney
Last year, Chris Dawson was charged with the murder of Lynette. Mr Dawson has denied any wrongdoing and has emphatically rejected being responsible for his wife's alleged murder.
Ms Hood said she was told about the podcast by a friend. "I cried for about two hours, and then I virtually spewed forth this story," Ms Hood said.
She wrote to Hedley Thomas and contacted a lawyer. "All of a sudden I thought 'oh my goodness, I can speak about this'," she said.
Ms Hood spoke to her friend 'Nicole' — who wished to remain anonymous for this article — and started a Facebook page called Teacher's Pets Released, offering support and encouragement to other students who may have had a similar experience at the school.
Nicole said the response to the group so far was overwhelming. "We've got a spreadsheet now to keep track of the volume," she said. "To date, we've got about 40 former students who reported either their own experience, or someone else's experience close to them, that involves approximately 13 teachers so far," she said.
Nicole was also a 17-year-old student with Ms Hood at the mid-north coast high school. Her alleged perpetrator was a different man to Ms Hood's. "There was quite an active social life on the weekends. My friends and I would go down to the local pub and there would be teachers there," she said.
"It was quite accepted that you just hung out and drank with the teachers. Most of us were 16 or 17 at the time. There was a particular teacher who showed an interest in me and bought me drinks."
The teacher lived near Nicole, and she said he would find reasons for the two of them to be together. "He would offer to drive me home after school and on some of those occasions he would go by a secluded place and want to have sex with me," she said.
"I felt obliged to go along because that's what you were expected to do."
There is more on this story here.
Child sexual abuse campaign slammed for tasteless sensationalism in Viet Nam
By Thanh Quynh 
An album featuring young girls sporting fake pregnancies in an anti-child abuse campaign has come in for heavy criticism.
The photo album is part of a project against sexual abuse of children initiated by two MCs (masters of ceremonies), Cong To and Minh Tra, in collaboration with photographer Da Mieu and Hanoi-based Shine Academy, which offers courses on soft skills.
Released last week, the photo album, titled "Nhung dua tre mang bau" (Children with pregnancy) puts the girls in situations where they have been abused by men.
In the photos, the girls, between eight and 12 years of age, wear fake pregnant bellies and their faces reflect anxiety, fear and panic so as to portray the suffering of real victims.
The photos carry captions like: "What is inside [my belly] mom?"; "Mom, the devils are real"; "He did not let me tell anyone and as you [the parents] are always busy, I did not dare to tell you anything"; and "He said it’s gonna be okay but it really hurts."
Apart from these quotes, the album carries data on the child abuse situation in Vietnam. It says that a child is harassed or abused every eight hours, and 93 percent of perpetrators are in the family circle.
'Every eight hours' - if only! These are only the reported cases, likely a small fraction of what is really happening.
It calls on everyone to be aware and raise their voices to protect children.
While the photographs touched the hearts of some people, many disagreed with the approach adopted.
The faces of the children in the photos are not obscured and many people are worried that they can be used for nefarious purposes, defeating the original intention, and eventually, affecting the young models themselves.
"Why are the faces of the men hidden and that of the children shown? The team [behind the project] does not seem to care about people and only wants shock in order to get attention," reader Hoang Huong commented.
"The reverse impact of this project should be carefully considered. The idea is good but the way it is expressed is not humane. Maybe the team should have sought advice from psychologists specializing in youth and social issues before implementing the project," commented another reader, Nguyen Bao Tri.
The defense
MC Cong To, the project’s creative director, said the team did think about the option of hiding the faces of the girls at first but then they worried that it would make viewers misunderstand that the models are real victims who’d already been abused.
"We did make it public that all girls in those photos are just models for the project. They have been offered two courses in child sexual abuse prevention and understand clearly the value of what they did.
"We have the agreement from their families and all of us were on the same page on how the project should be implemented," he said.
The photographer, Da Mieu, said the project aimed to attack sexual abusers of children, and choosing models of an older age would have been misleading.
The team also said this photo album is just a start for their project to protect children from sexual abuse. For the next step, they are working on a similar album for boys and plan to release it soon.
Dang Hoa Nam, head of the Department of Child Affairs under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, said he has seen all the photos and also followed public reaction. He said that while he agreed with the motivation behind a project to depict current events through art, there was some validity to the criticism.
Although the team had got permission from the parents before shooting photos of the girls, they should not have let the faces of the kids appear so clearly, because that could affect their lives later, Nam said.
"On the other hand, the message that the photo album wants to deliver is not yet clear. Pregnancy is not everything that a child will have to carry after being sexually harassed. What it does to their emotional and mental health is something they will never forget," he said.
Child sexual abuse is not rare in Vietnam, as reported by the public, yet official data on sexual harassment is not regularly published in the country.
A report released last month by the Ministry of Public Security said out of 1,600 reported cases of child abuse last year, 80 percent involved sexual assault and in most cases, the perpetrators were someone close to the children or having authority over them, like neighbors, relatives or teachers.
As vulgar and unfortunate as the photos are, I have to admire the publicity they are getting. It may be necessary to break through the cultural stigma that keeps the subject buried.
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