Monday, November 7, 2011

The Horror of Child Abuse in Sri Lanka

Sunday, November 06, 2011
Vulnerable children face five principal types of risk:  sexual abuse, emotional and physical abuse, institutional abuse and non-organic failure to thrive
‘Life’s aspirations come in the guise of children’
Fireflies by Rabindranath Tagore
This column dedicated to the notion of making Sri Lanka the Wonder of Asia today turns the spotlight on the horror of child abuse, which affects the aspirations of Sri Lankan society to be free of child abuse.