Tbilisi. The Public Defender has released a statement on measures required to protect children from violence. 

"In 2014-2015 the number of cases of sexual abuse of children increased dramatically. The analysis of the cases studied by the Office of Public Defender revealed that the issues of psycho-social rehabilitation of the child victims of sexual violence, their integration into the educational system and the referral procedure have been addresses inadequately. There are frequent cases of protracted investigation / criminal prosecution and the persons responsible are not identified. Furthermore, the implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on the "Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse” is inadequate, the obligation of implementation of which was undertaken by Georgia in 2014". 

Source: ombudsman.ge