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Child abuse

Members of the Care Leavers Australasia Network hold up a banner thanking an Australian government commission on preventing child sexual abuse as they await a final report outside Government House in Canberra, Australia on December 15, 2017.

Australia reckons with the national tragedy of child sexual abuse

Justice

Five years and thousands of interviews later, an Australian government investigation has released its final report on child sexual abuse. The prime minister said it added up to, “a national tragedy.”

Rajon protesters

A 13-year-old boy’s horrific death becomes viral Facebook video in Bangladesh

Justice

Pakistani children face high rates of incest, receive little support from family, state

Boy Scouts Release ‘Perversion’ Files

Pakistan’s Hidden Victims of Child Incest

Conflict & Justice
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Law enforcement officials at the Justice Department have announced 72 people  have been charged and 52 arrested in what they are describing as a “horrific” child pornography ring. The ring was allegedly organized on a private online club called “Dreamboard” –  where its members gained greater access and prestige by submitting images of their own violent acts […]

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Melonie Ware was a daycare provider in Georgia who was sentenced to life in prison for shaking a nine-month-old baby to death in 2004. But in a 2009 retrial, a court declared that the medical examiner’s findings were insufficient, concluding that the baby most likely died because complications due to sickle-cell anemia, and acquitted Ware. […]

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Is the bad economy increasing child abuse?

Business, Economics and Jobs

According to a recent study, child abuse cases went up 35 percent nationally between 2001 and 2007. Can the recession be blamed for these gloomy statistics? Or is there something else causing this trend?

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