France Probes Reports of Child Sex Abuse By Its Soldiers in CAR

Authorities in France are investigating allegations that French soldiers sexually abused a number of children during a peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic last year. The French government "was made aware at the end of July 2014 by the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Human Rights of accusations by children that they had been sexually abused by French soldiers," the defense ministry said in a statement Wednesday. The activist group AIDS-Free World said about...

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