More than 100 cases of violence against children in February
There were 22 cases of sexual abuse.
20 Mar 2019, 9:00 AM
More than 105 cases of violence against children were reported to the gender ministry in February, representing nearly half of cases attended to during the month.
The figure was down from 128 cases of violence against children reported during January, which included 28 cases of sexual abuse.
February’s cases included 26 cases of physical abuse, 22 cases of sexual abuse, eight cases of victims of bullying and harassment, five cases of emotional abuse, five cases of witness to domestic violence, three cases of victims of cyber bullying, two cases of commercial exploitation, one case of commercial sexual exploitation and one case of exploitation.
The gender ministry attended to one case of a child who was refused access to education, according to statistics published Tuesday.
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