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Article: EDITORIAL: Child abuse crisis: Child abuse crisis.
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- Japan Times (Tokyo, Japan)
- Article date:
- August 23, 2006
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Aug. 23--Child abuse in this nation has reached a crisis level. Child welfare centers across the nation dealt with a record 34,451 cases of child abuse in fiscal 2005, a thousand more than in the previous year and a 31.3-fold increase since fiscal 1990.
The police uncovered a record 120 cases of child abuse in the first half of this year, an increase of 14.3 percent over the same period last year. The police investigated 131 people on suspicion of child abuse, up 12.9 percent from last year. Victims numbered 128, up 18.5 percent from the previous year. Both figures are the highest since 2000. Twenty-eight of the victims died, six more than the year before. The ...