I am writing to express my profound concern regarding the content in Daily Mirror’s article by Shane Seneviratne on child rape, published on 21 December 2023. This article poses dangerous and inaccurate conflations between rape and consent that are factually and legally inaccurate, harmful to survivors, and further perpetuate norms that enable child sexual abuse. Having worked for 18 years with children who have survived rape in Sri Lanka and as CEO of Emerge Lanka Foundation, I urge the Daily Mirror to take a strong stance against child rape and to carefully consider how articles that the Daily Mirror publishes may condone and/or perpetuate harm.