A total 29 rape reports were received by the police in the first 11 months of this year.

Justice Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici told Labour MP Helena Dalli in Parliament that the victims' ages varied from six to 60 years. One was a gang rape.

The police have arraigned 22 persons involved in 18 cases.

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