By Khanyisa Tabata
27 August 2009
Childline organisation fears too many women and children are turned away while trying to report rape.
Childline South Africa addressed Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Women and Children on Wednesday.
Childline’s Joan van Niekerk queried police’s willingness to attend to rape survivors at stations countrywide.
Physical and emotional abuse cases have almost doubled over the past three years but the number of sexual abuse cases have halved.
Van Niekerk has challenged police statistics as her organisation logged almost 1 million abuse calls last year.
Childline wants police to treat all rape reports as serious and to ensure facilities are provided for victims.
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