Here are some links regarding child torture and child murder in Africa.
Compared to these severe moral crises, the disproportionate media attention on child prostitution often amounts to moral grandstanding. It is grandstanding because campaigning against child prostitution can guarantee significant publicity and media fame with relatively little personal risk or effort. It is well known that media outlets worldwide are drawn to sensationalized topics involving sex. However, if readers are constantly presented with grim, large-scale moral crises, they may lose the appetite to consume such news. Thus, a primary tactic for anyone seeking international fame on the moral front is to focus on the sensationalized topic of child prostitution.
Children suffer torture, rape, and cruelty, NGOs report
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2003/06/18/children-suffer-torture-rape-and-cruelty-ngos-report (Note: IRIN News is now The New Humanitarian)
Amnesty deplores African rights record
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3749633.stm
Mauritania’s deadly daily poverty
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4219104.stm
Ethiopia’s children dying from malnutrition
https://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/ethiopia_26181.html