Experts face an uphill task in fight against child sex abuse

Counselors focus on dark stories locked in young minds, reports Zhao Xu in Beijing.

To Meng Meng, a 5-year-old from a small village in Fujian province, the sand in the box was no more than sand and the miniature figures and animals she had been given in a sun-filled room were no more than toys.

But for her playmate, licensed psychologist Na Lixin, they are paths - tortuous as they may be - that could lead to a secret and probably unacknowledged chamber at the back of the little girl's mind.