Teen commits suicide over sex assault
On July - 20 - 2010
WINNIPEG — The parents of a 15-year-old Winnipeg girl say she hanged herself after she believed she was gang-raped.
Pauline Berens died on May 30 after she hanged herself in the garage of her family’s Winnipeg home. Exactly one week before, family members say, Berens and two girlfriends, aged 13 and 14, were sexually assaulted by three older teen boys after they passed out at a party. The girls awoke naked.
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---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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