New sex abuse trend a concern

The Child Care Board (CCB) is seeing a worrisome trend of sexual abuse cases where children, some between the ages of four to seven years, are performing sexual acts such as fellatio on each other.

Director Roseann Richards expressed the concern recently, saying this behaviour was “indicative of a lack of supervision, exposure to pornographic material or worse yet, reports that these younger children are seeing their older siblings watch pornographic videos”.

She said there were also...