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Attested Lunacy: Child marriages ‘fixed’ with notarised documents in India's Assam
Assam government is seized of the matter and the chief secretary, the highest ranking administrative services officer of the state, has taken the matter up. The issue was raised with the state government by NCPCR
Man watches child porn as he was 'bored' with Covid isolation, jailed
The man was sentenced to six weeks in jail after pleading guilty to one charge of possessing or gaining access to child abuse material
Muslim cleric 'sexually assaulted' 11-year-old boy in Delhi madrassa, booked under POCSO Act
Police said that the 24-year-old accused cleric has been arrested and cases under section 377 IPC and 6/8 POCSO Act have been registered at Karawal Nagar police station
Madrassa teacher booked under POCSO for sexually abusing 14-year-old boy for two months
The accused, police said, used to take the victim to his room and abuse him after which he would scare him into silence by threatening him with dire consequences if he told anyone about this
What steps have been taken to rescue, rehabilitate child beggars, HC asks Delhi govt
This comes after Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma said he has been in Delhi for the last two months and has seen the same set of children begging on the same streets daily, and made it clear that the court wanted results on the ground
Chhattisgarh: School principal arrested for molesting two girl students
A school principal in Chhattisgarh's Surajpur district has been booked under relevant IPC sections and POCSO ACT after a complaint accusing him of molesting two primary school students was registered on 6 August
From COVID-19 pandemic to culture of silence, why India is failing to protect children from online sexual abuse
To create safe digital spaces for our children and adolescents, policymakers, law enforcement agencies, civil society organizations, communities, the private sector, and experts need to come together
Over 99% crimes registered in 2020 under POCSO Act were against girls, shows NCRB data
An analysis of the latest NCRB data by NGO Child Rights and You (CRY) revealed that among 28,327 children who were victims of crimes reported under the POCSO Act, 28,058 were girls
French Roman Catholic Church had 3,000 child abusers, reveals probe
According to an independent commission report, two-thirds of the abusers were priests and have worked in the church over the past 70 years.
Retired French surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec gets 15 years in jail in first leg of country’s biggest paedophilia trial
The doctor, who has been accused of sexually abusing over 300 children, was found to be in possession of over three lakh pornographic images including those of children
Assam doctor, college principal wife arrested for pouring hot water on minor domestic help
The incident came to light after the district child welfare committee received a video from an anonymous source
Health
Maltreated children five times more likely to develop multiple chronic illnesses in adulthood, says study
The study also found that adults who had experienced neglect or physical, sexual and emotional abuse as children were over three times more likely to report poor health, widespread pain, frailty and loneliness
The Lost Child: How the abuse prevalent in Muzaffarpur's Balika Griha was brought to light
While the first episode of The Lost Child looked at the abuse prevalent in Muzaffarpur's Balika Griha, the second episode follows up with an interview of Tarique Mohammed, who lead the TISS team through the audit which brought this debacle to light.
Bangladeshi students turn to social media to speak up about sex abuse at hands of teachers, older pupils in Islamic schools
Child abuse in madrasas has long gone unreported in Bangladesh, the Muslim majority nation
Uttar Pradesh: Man thrashed on suspicion of child abduction in Meerut's Shahjahanpur area; eight accused held
Eight people were arrested for allegedly thrashing a man on suspicion of being a child lifter in Shahjahanpur area in Meerut on Sunday
The Lost Child: Suno India and Firstpost present a podcast on the country's child shelter homes
The Lost Child, a series by Suno India supported by Firstpost, gives insight into child shelter homes in India and explores the ground reality of the lives of these young people. The series will ask complex questions as it progresses: Why are shelter homes underfunded and not staffed sufficiently? Why is family restoration through counseling and support not a big priority for the government? What is being done to help children in shelter homes to cope?
Madrasa teacher arrested in Kerala’s Thrissur for sexually abusing minors; accused lured children with sweets, interrogation reveals
A 63-year-old madrassa teacher in Kottayam, Kerala, has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing children after luring them with sweets, police said here on Sunday
To curb child sexual abuse in India, POCSO Act needs wide publicity; personal safety education among children, parents vital
Children are not voters, which is why their needs are often neglected. It is the collective responsibility of all citizens to protect children from child sexual abuse and ensure that they have a childhood free of any abuse.
In Kerala's Chettikulangara Devi Temple, devotees set on defying ban on ritual involving piercing of boys with metal hooks
The Chettikulangara Devi Temple in Alappuzha district of Kerala is all set to conduct the primitive ritual called 'chooral muriyal' in which midribs of young boys are pierced with gold or silver strings or bamboo strands, despite a ban on the ritual in 2016