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Per-Anders Pettersson
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"Sexual abuse of children in South Africa"  

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - FEBRUARY 5: A lab technician at the South African Police services forensic laboratory examining a child's underwear for DNA samples in a rape case on February 5, 2002 in Cape Town, South Africa. The Child Protection Unit, a special police unit that handles abuse against children is struggling an uphill battle against crimes involving children. The country is struggling with increasing number of rapes and sexual abuse of young children, and the country has the highest number of rapes in the world.
 
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