Thu 03 February 2022:
According to a police study released on Thursday, children in Japan experienced an increase in abuse cases last year as a result of limited welfare measures brought on by coronavirus precautions.
Last year, the country’s National Police Agency investigated 2,170 complaints of child abuse, a 1.7 percent increase over the previous year.
“As the novel coronavirus pandemic is feared to reduce opportunities to watch over children, we will continue to monitor information that could lead to uncovering abuse,” a Japanese police official told the Tokyo-based agency Kyodo News.
Police data showed a record number of 108,050 minors — a figure up 1% from the previous year — were referred to child welfare centers due to suspicions of abuse.
All people under the age of 18 are considered minors in Japanese law.
For the second year in a row, the number reached 100,000.
It stated that 80,299 minors “suffered verbal or emotional abuse, 19,185 physical abuse, 8,270 neglect, and 296 sexual abuse.
“Psychological and sexual abuse both increased from the previous year,” added the agency.
Last year also saw the number of consultations on domestic violence “hit a record 83,035.”
However, the data showed the number of offenses receding for the seventh consecutive year in 2021 to a record low in the postwar era, totaling 568,148 cases.
“Serious crimes including murder and robbery dropped 1.3% to 8,823.”
Cybercrime cases leaped 24.3% over the year to a record 12,275 cases.
“The number of suspicious connection attempts detected by police rose to 7,335 on a daily average per IP address in 2021, likely affected by progress in digitalization in society brought by such practices as teleworking amid the pandemic,” it added.
Cybercrime cases increased 24.3 percent to a record 12,275. The number of suspicious connection attempts detected by police rose to 7,335 on a daily average per IP address in 2021, likely affected by progress in digitalization in society brought by such practices as teleworking amid the pandemic.
SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
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