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Infant rape is happening all over the place, not just in South Africa
... all these examples are from the BBC website
England - Law chief reviews baby rape terms. 2006
Two babysitters who raped a 12-week-old baby are to have their jail sentences reviewed by the Lord Chief Justice.
Alan Webster, 40, and his girlfriend Tanya French, 19, both from Hatfield in Hertfordshire, pleaded guilty to rape. Webster and French raped the baby girl and took photographs of the abuse. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/beds/bucks/herts/4848802.stm
Scotland - Judge to decide paedophile's fate. 2004
Sheriff Mackie [Scotland] said that Aitken made "a conscious decision" to collect images of young girls and infants being cruelly raped, sodomised and forced to perform oral sex. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4652159.stm
Zambia - Should child rapists be castrated? 2004
Zambian police say that 400 cases of child rape were reported in the first half of 2003 - a 68% increase on the previous year. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3240736.stm
Wales - Man jailed for attempted baby rape
A north Wales man has been jailed for life for the attempted rape of a baby girl. 2002 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1939484.stm
France - French test 'chemical castration' 2002
Now almost a quarter of male detainees in French jails - or 8,200 people - are sex offenders and nearly three-quarters of those have raped small children.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4170963.stm
These are just some of the many examples of abuse of very small children, the numbers may not be as high as in South Africa, but it is just as brutal and just as appalling.
Lesley Rudd