SABC 1's Cutting Edge programme exposes sexual abuse of disabled children

SAfm — Disability rights organisations have called on the government to do more to root out the problem of sexual abuse of children with mental disabilities. An investigation by the SABC 1 Current Affairs programme, Cutting Edge, has uncovered widespread sexual abuse of children with disabilities in special schools in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu Natal. Parents that Cutting Edge spoke to, say their children are emotionally destroyed and their development hampered. Sexual abuse cases involving children with disabilities are often difficult to investigate as the victims are unable to tell police their story. Zimkhita Manqinana filed this report.