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Taking photographs of women breastfeeding in public without their consent is set to be made illegal in england and wales. thejustice secretary, dominic raab, has told the bbc that the move would stop women being pestered , whether for self gratification or harassment purposes. mr raab also confirmed that victims of domestic abuse would get more time to report crimes to police, to plug gaps in the law that could allow offenders to escape justice. our political correspondent alex forsyth has the story. it s a crime behind closed doors that too often goes unpunished. throughout the pandemic, reports of domestic abuse went up, but many cases never make it to court. last year, the bbc revealed thousands were dropped because there wasn t enough time to bring charges. now, the justice secretary says the law should change to allow more than the current six months for people to report cases of common assault that involve domestic abuse.
I think it s quite difficult to fully track change because this is an area that s quite under researched and underreported. but we know that the majority of girls report things like unwanted touching, groping, being pressured and pestered to send nudes. that that is so frequent, it s become a part of everyday life to the point where they wouldn t bother reporting it because itjust feels like it s a normal part of the day. eight out of ten of the victims reporting to the police in our new figures were girls. more than one in ten of the alleged abusers were aged ten or under. it s hard to believe so many children are subjecting each other to this sort of abuse, but the weight of the evidence is very hard to ignore. so how did we get to this position, where early sexual experiences for so many
So is this behaviour getting worse for today s kids, or are theyjust reporting it more? dr rebekah eglinton works for an ongoing national inquiry into child sexual abuse. is there any sense of how different the culture now is compared to, say, 20 years ago? i think it s quite difficult to fully track change because this is an area that s quite under researched and underreported. but we know that the majority of girls report things like unwanted touching, groping, being pressured and pestered to send nudes. that that is so frequent, it s become a part of everyday life to the point where they wouldn t bother reporting it because itjust feels like it s a normal part of the day. eight out of ten of the victims reporting to the police in our new figures were girls. more than one in ten of the alleged abusers were aged ten or under.