"Sexual abuse takes a heavy toll in Africa"

Worrying report carried by the NY Times on the prevelance of child (sex) abuse, and 'violence of silence'...

Africa is not unique in its high rates of abuse. While a survey of nine countries last year by the World Health Organization found the highest incidence of child sexual abuse in Namibia — more than one in five women there reported being sexually abused before age 15 — it also found frequent abuse in Peru, Japan and Brazil, among other nations. Relatives are frequent perpetrators in Africa, as in much of the world.

"He destroyed my life and my body," she said.

Painful.