Crackdown on violence against children

More than 102 children have suffered some form of physical violence (blows and wounds) during the year 2012 in Salé.The statistics are alarming, especially when they come from a reliable source such as the Minors' Brigade under the police district in Salé. According to the same figures presented last week by the brigade chief Rachid Nait Taleb, 52 children of the recorded cases have not yet reached the age of 12, while 31% of the cases were victims of sexual violence. Moreover, these figures are rising crescendo to reach worrying levels. According to Aicha El Kbidi, a social worker at the Moulay Abdellah hospital in Salé, the Assistance Unit for women and children victims of violence welcomes an increasing number of children victims of physical violence in Salé every month. In order to effectively fight against this phenomenon, a new project to fight against the various forms of violenc…