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Extent of UK child abuse exposed

Friday, 20 May 2016 10:24 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 21 May 2016 2:03 AM ]

The extent of child sex abuse in the UK has increased dramatically between 2012 and 2015.

Mohamed Walji
Press TV, London

The problem of child sex abuse in the UK is growing as the number of cases being reported to police rose 80 percent between 2012 and 2015. UK police say should the numbers continue to increase at this rate, the number of cases will be in the hundreds of thousands in the not too distant future. Our correspondent Mohamed Walji reports.

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