Urgent to protect kids from predators

THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS, China's top legislature, is discussing a draft amendment to the Law on the Protection of Juveniles, which will prohibit employers from employing those convicted of sexual offenses against children. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

It might take a person minutes to commit a sexual offense against a juvenile, but it will leave the victim with mental scars for the rest of their life.

Being inferior in physical strength, juveniles need special protection. However, in the past decades, there have been quite a number of cases in which school staff have been convicted of sexually assaulting children in their care, and there have long been calls for known sex offenders to be kept away from minors.