A recent string of high profile cases involving “celebrity perpetrators” along with a series of ongoing inquires into historical child abuse in the UK has brought sexual abuse into the public consciousness in an unprecedented way.
Similar inquiries are also underway internationally – notably the ongoing Australian Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, which has spent the last four years hearing testimony from thousands of Australian survivors.
http://theconversation.com/issue-of-children-who-sexually-abuse-other-children-is-not-something-that-can-be-ignored-73478
Similar inquiries are also underway internationally – notably the ongoing Australian Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, which has spent the last four years hearing testimony from thousands of Australian survivors.
http://theconversation.com/issue-of-children-who-sexually-abuse-other-children-is-not-something-that-can-be-ignored-73478