Incest and Sexual Abuse of Children
The Bahrain Sociologists Society called on the executive institutions
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and civil society organizations to pay more attention to the problem
of incest. It stressed the need to put into place deterrent legislations
and draw up preventative plans, which would limit the dangerous
social effects of this problem on Bahraini families. The social
researcher Wisam Al Saba’ said in a lecture held in the Society’s
headquarters “there is a need to scrutinize this phenomenon, in
order to determine its size, and then come up with a preventative
and curative strategy to confront it. This can be achieved with
the cooperation and coordination of the concerned civil society
bodies.”
Lou Loua Al Ajaji, the Acting President for the Bahrain Centre
for Child Protection said that the Centre had received 270 cases
on various sexual, physical and psychological abuses. She added
that sexual abuse of children is on the increase and that some families
waive their legal rights in order to avoid stigma, especially in
cases involving girls.
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