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Fighting Child Sexual Abuse: Be Sure to Know the Age of Your Date

Activist Harish Iyer navigates the murky world of dating apps, which often become dens for predators.

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Child sexual abuse is an epidemic in this country. Children across sex and gender are vulnerable. The abuser is usually a man. However, whenever a girl child is abused by a man, you don’t read headlines that brand all heterosexuals as abusers, but when a boy is abused by a man, we stand the danger of all queer men being seen as pedophiles or predators.

I speak of this now, as there is a recent case of a minor complainant in his late teens, who confessed that he had sex with a man who is over three times his age.
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