First local study on child sexual abuse ready
CHENNAI: The first comprehensive local study on child sexual abuse was conducted and presented by Tulir — Centre for the Prevention & Treatment of Sexual Abuse, at a seminar here on Thursday.
The study has found that 42 per cent of the 2211 children, mostly adolescents, surveyed have been abused. The data, collected by self-reporting anonymous questionnaires filled mainly by class eleven students in schools within the Chennai Corporation zone limits, shatters several myths about abuse. More.....
Source: The Hindu, March 10, 2006.