Pregnant kids alarm

Image of baby in mothers womb from the Jamaica Gleaner for article on Pregnant kids alarm

A staggering 249 girls have been impregnated from rapes, carnal abuse and other sex crimes between January 2020 and March this year.

This is just under eight per cent of the total 3,265 children sexually abused over the period, statistics from Jamaica’s multi-agency child sex abuse investigative team has revealed, and does not reflect the hundreds believed to have contracted sexually transmitted infections in the process.

Read the full article in the Jamaica Gleaner.