More police officers have been added to Newcastle's child abuse squad as the Hunter continues to generate the highest rate of child abuse cases in the state.
The startling figure follows the opening of a Royal Commission into the issue in Sydney today, which is expected to run for a week.
Robyn Cotterill Jones from the Victims Assistance League says authorities are doing their best to combat the statistic.
"For some reason the Central Coast and the Hunter Region seem to get a lot of reports of child sexual abuse and it's great to see the police responding by putting more people in," Ms Cotterill Jones said, "It's a tough job investigating child sexual abuse.. the job can be very traumatic for the people involved."
