Warning: This report contains details of sexual assaults. Reader discretion is advised.
CNN
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Armed forces in Sudan’s ongoing civil war are perpetrating systematic sexual violence against young children, with one-year-olds the youngest survivors of rape, according to a new report from UNICEF, the United Nations’ (UN) children’s agency.
The UNICEF report, released Tuesday, said that at least 221 cases of child rape had been recorded since the beginning of 2024, along with an additional 77 reported cases of sexual assault against children.
Four one-year-olds were among those who survived sexual assaults, while another 12 survivors…
