Trauma can hit victims of all ages

A 13-year-old boy nicknamed Little Xing, who liked to meet strangers on the Internet, was contacted by a 43-year-old man, who later sexually assaulted the minor on a number of occasions. Little Xing was reported to be just one of 160 boys under the age of 13 the man had met online. The man, a civil servant in Guangzhou was arrested in August.

A 13-year-old boy in Xianyang, Shaanxi province, was "sexually serviced" on July 31 by a female "technician" when his family took him to the public baths. Later the boy was asked to sign a bill for the "service". The boy's mother only discovered what had happened when she found the bill the next day. She immediately called the police. They detained the woman and confiscated a number of items from the baths as part of their investigation.

In July, more than 10 graduates of a high school in Shanghai used a micro blog to detail claims that they were sexually abused by their physics teacher 15 years previously. As most of the alleged victims are now fathers of school-age children, they said they were concerned that their children might be subjected to a similar ordeal. That led to the decision to reveal the secret they had kept hidden for more than a decade. The local municipal education administration launched an investigation and the teacher lost his job.

In June, 20-year-old Ma left his hometown in Shandong province and moved to Shenzhen to look for work. One evening, he attended a karaoke bar with some friends. During the evening, he was introduced to a stranger who said he could find Ma a job. The inexperienced young man believed him.

At some point in the evening, Ma was drugged. When he awoke the next morning he found himself naked in a hotel bedroom and the stranger had disappeared. Ma was later taken to the hospital by a friend and doctors discovered that he had been anally raped.