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Judi Lynn

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Thu Nov 20, 2014, 03:33 PM Nov 2014

Two children sexually abused every hour in Colombia

Two children sexually abused every hour in Colombia
Nov 20, 2014 posted by David Wing

Two children are sexually abused in Colombia every hour, the country’s Medical Examiner’s Office said Tuesday.

The office made the claim based on data compiled between January and September of this year, for a total of 10,442 cases.

Of the total cases, 83% of the victims were female with almost half of them being between the ages of 10 and 14 years old. The majority of male victims were abused between the ages of five and nine years old.

Angela Rosales, National Director of SOS Children’s Villages in Colombia, stated that families have the capability to teach their children their rights in order to prevent these incidents.

The data also shows that me majority of abuses are perpetrated “by a member of the family or in the household.” Just under 50% of the alleged perpetrators were family members. The abuse was perpetrated by someone the child lived with in 40% of the cases. This means that the family may not have an incentive to educate the children on their rights. It may be a factor in another problem: the institute estimates that its data only represents about 30% of actual abuses that took place in Colombia this year.

More:
http://colombiareports.co/two-children-sexually-abused-every-hour-colombia-report-says/

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