A male refugee has been charged with the sexual assault of a young Nauruan girl, Nauruan police have said. She had come forward to the police department’s domestic violence and sexual assault unit, Blake said. It is not the first allegation of violence by a refugee or asylum seeker. In December last year a six-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by a male refugee known to the family, also refugees. Another case, which is about to go before the court, involving the sexual assault of a six-year-old refugee girl, is though to be the first to reach that stage.

Source: The Guardian November 30, 2016 06:22 UTC