The statistics on child abuse in the UK are truly horrifying, at least one child dies every week as a result of an adults cruelty, and thousands more endure abuse and neglect at the hands of their carers. Yet the known facts reveal only a fraction of the problem. This is because most cases of abuse go unreported, leaving children to suffer the pain and misery of abuse in silence.
Over a quater of all recorded rape victims are children, three quarters of sexually abused children do not tell anyone at the time and around a third are not able to tell anyone about the experience later. …
