In South Africa a child is raped every 5 minutes and child abuse has increased by 108 percent wince 1993, around the same time of the new regime. 15,732 cases of child rape were reported to authorities in 1999 compared to 7,559 in 1994. ... This could be due to the increase of rape or just the increase of rapes reported to the South African police. ... The issue turns into rape, as any kind of sexual intercourse or act with a child is sexual assault. HIV/Aid infected men are raping children and babies as young as 18 months old, because of a myth they had heard. ... From the brutal rapes of s...

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Cultural Relativism Vs Universal Children's Rights Even though most moral codes are linked to cultural & society, does not mean we have to accept cultural relativism when it comes to child abuse in any form. We cannot deny that cultural differences are real and are important in analyzing and j...

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Sex offenders are a highly diverse group of people, but all are individuals who have at least one of the following crimes in common: have committed violent sexual assault on a stranger, have had inappropriate sexual contact with a family member, have molested a child or any other inappropriate and criminal sexual behavior. Currently, in the United States, there are a total of 722,499 individuals who are registered sex offenders (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). However, this number does not reflect every person who has committed a sexual offense. Research shows that a lot of cases go unreported whi...

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