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Chile probes sex abuse in schools

CHILE will investigate 61 schools in the capital for possible child sex abuse, the attorney general said on Friday in the latest government step to address a sharp rise in reports of such crimes.

Attorney general Sabas Chahuan said his office will look at 49 schools in eastern Santiago and 12 on city's west side. Several teachers have recently been accused of sexually molesting children at schools in Santiago's affluent east.

Reports of sexual abuse of children under age of 14 jumped 22 percent in the first half of the year from the same period in 2011, according to estimates.

"Wherever there are children, we will investigate just the same as we do with corruption or economic crimes," Chahuan said after meeting with representatives of a parents association. "We put ourselves in the place of the parents and we know they're worried, anxious and desperate."

The government banned convicted pedophiles from working near children last month under a new law that also requires those convicted of sexually abusing minors or of child pornography to be registered in a database.




 

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