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Judging from Helen's response I should have expanded my followup. What I means to say was, often logic would require more than one hyphen, as in the cited example, where
anti child-sexual-exploitation group
or even
anti-child-sexual-exploitation group
might work as well,
...it seems a current tendency of the media to use only a single hyphen, sometimes with hilarious consequences; whereas I see nothing wrong with multiple hyphens,
as in
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