In China, sexual abuse of children has not been the high-profile issue that it is in the United States, or more recently Britain.

That changed on a dime last month. Within the last three weeks, there have been nine major cases of sexual abuse in schools around the country, with more than 30 children involved.

The common denominator in the cases is that those accused of abuse have been people with power, such as principals or teachers, and their alleged victims often children of migrant workers or farmers. Millions of working parents must leave their children with grandparents or at boarding schools, where the young people don't always receive adequate supervision.

A 38-year-old activist was arrested Thursday at her home in the southern province of Guangxi after protesting in front of the Wanning elementary school in Hainan, whose principal allegedly spent the night with his underage pupils. Ye Haiyan, who advocates for the rights of prostitutes, had been picketing with a banner reading, "If you want to get a room" — a Chinese euphemism for having sex — "call me and leave the children alone."

The phrase caught on, and by week's end hundreds of Chinese, men and women, had posted photographs of themselves on microblogs holding banners with the same message.

Here's a link to the stories:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-child-sex-abuse-20130602,0,3430826.story

http://qz.com/89722/protesting-is-taboo-in-china-even-if-its-against-child-abuse/

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1250041/school-sexual-abuse-protester-ye-haiyan-beaten

Here's a link to the protestors:

http://www.see-anecdote.com/post/657.html

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They should have less children and that would help with that issue and a lot of other issues they have.

>>3 ...How ignorant are you? It's illegal to have more than one. If you do, it's like a 100,000-200,000 yuan fine. And because it's a law broken, that's placed on your background check, and it'll be nearly impossible to support your family from competing with millions.

And they would have to have at least one child because of their culture. Their children provide for the adults as soon as they're out of college.

Also, without children, their family bloodline will cease to exist.

And lastly, why the hell do you and people like you blame everyone but the sexual assaulter? Children are miracles and wonders. To blame the parent for having them and not the pedophile who abused they're power over them is just...wrong.

>>3 Wow Really, why on earth would you say something like that, it just goes to show just how stupid some people on earth, it is the sexual assulters fault not the childrens, and it is also not the parents fault for having the children.

>>3 WHO ARE YOU?? WHO ARE GIVING YOU THESE OPINIONS?????? I am so damn confused.

>>3 That's basically saying that children are at fault for whatever is happening to China. Blaming the one that was assaulted is just plain ignorant.

This makes me sick. Not to mention that the cases remained in the shadows because of the abusers power.

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Hopefully they can get more attention called to this issue and actually get their government to do something about it. So, any of you guys think this will actually help or will it just get swept under the rug?

>>10 What the hell does this have to do with anything? I swear Dean, you must be drunk 24/7 cuz there hasn't been one day yet where you've made sense, and frankly, it's starting to piss me off.

>>9 I've written a petition, but I need someone on Change.org to post it. I can't do it myself, because next time I go to China, there might be complications.

>>11 I can help out with that

>>12 Bitchin. Alright, here are the instructions:

http://dollars-bbs.org/missions/res/1370196944.html#13

https://www.change.org/petitions/government-of-the-people-s-republic-of-china-let-the-parents-victims-of-child-abuse-cases-hire-a-legal-representative

The Official Dollars Petitioning Site: http://www.change.org/users/thedollars

I want to give thanks to Unkown, whom without his help, this could not be accomplished.

I was trying to say that other countries have this kind of problem all the time. It's not just China. Creep

>>19 How does that picture represent at all the fact that other countries have that problem? It also makes the problem no less extreme.

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