First ever national study finds boys at higher risk than girls,with few safeguards in spot to protect them. The Daily Maverick (an independent, nonconformist person) reportsSouth Africa’s first nationwide study on sex abuse has found that one in three young people will experience some form of sexual abuse before the age of 17, with boys at a higher risk than girls. The groundbreaking report, and released by the Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention and the University of Cape Town,found that 784967 teenagers between the ages of 15 and 17 had been sexually abused.
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Source: theguardian.com