Geneva, Switzerland (20 Minutes, Fre) – Fifteen children under the age of 12 were hospitalized and treated for sexual abuse by other children at the HUG (university hospitals) in 2008. but doctors there say they are seeing only a portion of cases. In an interview with Giancarlo Mariani at 20 Minutes they were unable to provide an estimate for the number of children being sexually abused, but they did say they are seeing several new kinds of cases.

Among the new situations: more second-marriage families are affected, with children who are not blood relatives abusing other members of the new family, and the sons of mamans du jour (daycare providers) abusing children cared for by their mothers.

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