Child Abuse

Supreme Court criminalising sex with minor wife ends conflict in rules, but verdict is too simplistic for a complex problem

Supreme Court order criminalising sex with minor wife ends conflict in rules on child abuse and child marriage, but it also makes sexually active adolescents vulnerable

Alarming increase in child abuse cases in Pakistan’s Punjab province, 70 per cent of victims are boys

A report by the Punjab government’s Home Department said that there has been a ‘significant increase’ in child abuse crime rate in the province of 120 million people, mostly against boys.

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

Licking urine-sodden sheets is not 'tradition', Mr VC

Forced to lick urine-sodden sheets in Tagore's university? The shocker in Tagore's town isn't just the warden's act, but also the vice-chancellor's initial reaction.

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