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bodies, children who have survey, 80 to 85 per cent of
been abused have ditficulty offenders were either the
explaining what has hap- tather or a tather figure
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understand that their private study, one out of three girls

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IS important to gise the them own home, Melmechuk
night names to children “ said, and the offenders are
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