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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"child",<br>"author":"usamasher",<br>"permlink":"no-death-penalty-is-not-a-solution-to-child-sexual-abuse",<br>"title":"No,<br> death penalty is not a solution to child sexual abuse",<br>"body":"In Pakistan,<br> a country where 31% of the population is below the age of 14,<br> silence is,<br> in fact,<br> often the only recourse available to victim-children.\n\nOut of the 1,<br>172 cases of rape,<br> including gang-rape and sodomy,<br> that were reported in 2016,<br> only a handful made their way into public discourse.\n\nThe rest were forced to find their own way through a criminal justice system that provides virtually no safeguards for child complainants,<br> hangs onto archaic procedures of investigating sexual crimes,<br> and holds virtually zero convictions for sexual crimes in most districts.\n\nGiven the government\u2019s pithy record in addressing child sexual abuse,<br> the outrage and shock at the tragic murder of six-year-old Zainab in Kasur demonstrates our collective ignorance towards the plight of the most vulnerable.",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"child\",<br>\"sexual\",<br>\"abuse\",<br>\"in\",<br>\"pakistan\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " |
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