A photo collection of pregnant children aimed to raise people’s awareness about child sexual abuse has stirred the public controversy after they are published on social networks.

Despite rising social awareness of child sexual assaults, legal loopholes still exist which made it difficult to administer appropriate punishments for the crime.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A total of 1,547 child abuse cases were reported nationwide last year, with majority child sexual abuse, according to a report by the Ministry of Public Security.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Child sexual abuse has been on the rise across the country, with most incidents remaining unreported, police have said.

The Supreme People’s Procuracy (SPP) on Wednesday ordered full investigations on a 76-year-old man from Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province who is facing allegations of child sexual abuse, following public uproar. 

 A man in Australia is believed to be the first to have been convicted as the result of an undercover sting in which charity workers posed online as a 10-year-old Filipina.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Hai Huu, Head of the Child Protection and Care Department of the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, talks to online newspaper Vietnam Plus about changes to childcare legislative protection.

 Japan has banned the possession of child sex-abuse images, one of the last developed countries to do so.