Macao to set up child-abuse center
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-05-29 14:02
China's Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR) is to set up a child-abuse
center next month, local media reported Monday.
The Macao Post Daily quoted Ip Peng Kin, president of the government-run
Social Welfare Institute (SWI) as saying that the center aims to educate the
public on child abuse prevention and to provide professional counseling on cases
of child abuse.
The center will not function as "a refuge" for the abused children, the
official told the newspaper.
The number of registered child-abuse cases stood at six in the region with a
population of nearly 500,000, according to statistics released by the SWI.
Some local parents failed to admit child-abuse cases to the authorities due
to "the feelings of shame," Ip, the SWI chief, was cited.
The recent imprisonment of a man who repeatedly raped his 11-year-old
daughter flamed the public concerns over the child abuse issue.
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