Russia’s ombudsman for children’s rights and the head of the Investigative Committee have joined forces in an effort to fight crimes against children, in particular suicide-promotion groups on the internet that target minors. According to a report released by the Investigative Committee’s website, the head of the agency, Aleksandr Bastrykin, noted during a meeting with children’s rights ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova that the dire situation with the suicide rate among children was being worsened by the effect of mass media and the internet.
“The mass media are covering every suicide in detail and the internet contains entire sites and groups on social networks with detailed descriptions of various ways of taking own life. So-called suicide clubs are being created in social networks,” Bastrykin said. Ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova agreed that in order to solve the problem, all state public and social structures needed to work in cooperation.
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INC News, 29/09/2016 - source: ©RTNews
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