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Sexual abuse rates 'alarming'

Nation News "THE RATE of sexual violence in the Caribbean surpasses the global average.

Furthermore, the region's criminal assizes reflect that 1.3 or 33 per cent of all offences, are of a sexual nature.

According to Jacqueline Sealy-Burke, attorney-at-law and advocate of children's rights and social justice, most cases involved women and children, with an alarmingly high number of child sexual abuse cases."

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