‘Big minority’ of children sexually abused in UK

UNITED KINGDOM
ITV

A “big minority” of British children are subjected to sexual abuse, with as many as one in four falling victim to “this dreadful social problem”, the head of a children’s charity told Good Morning Britain.

Founder of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, Peter Saunders, said the convictions of perpetrators was “being driven by survivors and the media”.

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