Hong Kong: Social Media Causing Increase In Child Sexual Abuse
On August - 9 - 2013
According to new government statistics in Hong Kong, the number of cases of sexual abuse against children last year had its biggest jump nine years of available public data. In 2012, 336 children were abused, and for the first half of this year, officials have already registered more than half that figure, or 183 cases. Why the increase? “One possible reason is the popularity of social networking websites on the internet where children are susceptible to sexual abuse pitfalls,” a government spokeswoman told the Wall Street Journal (paywall). READ MORE HERE
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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