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The Surpreme People’ s Procuracy, the nation’ s premier prosecuting agency, has requested changes in the Penal Code to facilitate investigations into and legal proceedings against child sex abuse suspects.— Photo daibieunhandan. vn
“ HÀ NỘI— The Surpreme People’ s Procuracy, the nation’ s premier prosecuting agency, has requested changes in the Penal Code to facilitate investigations into and legal proceedings against child sex abuse suspects. This request was made last month at a meeting of the National Assembly’ s Justice Committee and the Committee for Culture, Education, Youth, Adolescents and Children in Hà Nội.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs( MoLISA) estimates that around 2,000 Vietnamese children face violence and abuse annually, of whom 1,200 suffer sexual abuse. Among these, more than 13 per cent are girls below the age of six.
But the real number of Vietnamese children being sexually abused may be much higher, said MoLISA deputy minister Đào Hồng Lan.
Lan said that in Việt Nam, sexual abuse, especially of children, was such a culturally sensitive issue that the families of both victims and offenders do not want such incidents to be publicly revealed. The victim’ s family fears that public exposure would affect the future of their children.
The Supreme People’ s Procuracy is proposing special investigation methods be applied in cases were a child is sexually abused, the representatives said.”
Nguyễn Thu Hà, Chairwoman of the Việt Nam Women’ s Union, said media needs to be required to keep victims’ information confidential, and schools should take sex education very seriously.- VNS
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