Our View: Commissioner absolutely right to demand child abuse probe

Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights, Despo Michaelidou, has rightly demanded explanations regarding a child abuse case recently uncovered in Larnaca, where five children were reportedly subjected to years of abuse by parental figures.

The children, four girls and one boy, aged seven to 23, two of them from a different father, said they had suffered psychological and physical abuse. One of the girls had reportedly been sexually abused