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Lockdown increased child abuse – report

A FATHER who locked his child in a fridge for misbehaving is just one case of abuse social workers had to deal with during lockdown.

Childline received more than 25 000 calls a month as the country saw an increase in violence, rape and murder of women and children during the period. And

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