Child Molestation

Akshay Kumar confesses he was touched inappropriately as a child : 'I was really agitated'

Akshay Kumar recalls the traumatic incident when he was six. "The liftman touched my butt. Till today, I find it difficult to say the word 'bum'," he says.

Supreme Court rules out old age as ground to plea for token sentence in sexual offence case

Old age and clean antecedents can at best be relevant for reducing the punishment but not a ground to allow a convict walk free after serving a token punishment in molestation cases, the Supreme Court said.

Trapping a predator: How Sunil Rastogi, 'India's worst paedophile', was finally brought to book

The story of how the police finally took into custody Sunil Rastogi, the Delhi tailor who confessed to having sexually abused over 500 children

Delhi molestation: India not ready for sex offenders registry, says child rights lawyer

Speaking exclusively to Firstpost, child rights lawyer Anant Asthana talks about why India needs special police trained to handle crimes against cases, the juvenile justice system and how the police figures on the Delhi tailor accused of sexually molesting kids might be exaggerated

What is chemical castration? All you need to know about the procedure as Supreme Court asks Parliament to ponder

Paedophilia and paedophiles should not be seen as dangerous, violent, inhuman creatures but that it is upto society to recognise their flaws and understand their mental anguish and torment and then subject them to necessary restrictions.

Twelve year old allegedly raped by teacher at knife-point in UP

A 12-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her teacher at knifepoint in a school at Budakheri village.

Delhi again: 10-year-old girl molested by PT teacher in school

A 10-year-old girl was allegedly molested by a physical education teacher at a private school in south west Delhi's Dabri area.

Bangalore shame continues: Another 3-year-old child sexually abused in school

A private school attendant was booked for sexually abusing a three-year-old in Bangalore on Wednesday.

Delhi court convicts child rapist, says delay in FIR no ground to doubt case

The delay in lodging a complaint itself is no ground to doubt the case of prosecution, a Delhi court has said while convicting a man of sodomising and molesting a five-year-old girl in his neighbourhood.

Former child model drops sex abuse case against X-men director Bryan Singer

Egan, 31, accused Singer of sexually abusing him during trips to Hawaii in 1999, when Egan was 17.