Crime Against Children

Dehradun school buries body of 12-year-old boy on campus after seniors allegedly kill him for stealing biscuits

Several news dailies reported that the Dehradun boy was beaten up by two Class 12 students with cricket bats and wickets and then poured cold water on him.

Goa rape case: 3 security guards arrested for assaulting 6-yr-old; minor was abused thrice in four months

Goa Police has arrested three security guards for raping a 6-year-old girl, daughter of a construction worker in South Goa district's Canacona village

Gurugram: Ryan International School's bus conductor arrested, tried to sexually abuse 7-yr-old before murder

A Class II student was found dead, with his throat slit, inside a toilet in Gurugram's Ryan International School, media reports said on Friday.

Murray Ward in custody for sodomising children: Accused was regular visitor of Delhi home for visually challenged

Murray Ward, a 54-year-old British national was recently arrested in New Delhi for sodomising visually challenged children at an institution, with which he had been associated for nine years

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

US: 94-year-old wanted in sexual assault charges, lawyer says client near death

A lawyer for a 94-year-old man charged with sexually assaulting campers in Wyoming decades ago said Tuesday that his client is near death in northern Michigan and may not make it to the weekend.

Crime against children, women on increase in Kerala in 2014

A total of 1,336 crimes, including 427 rapes, against children had been reported in Kerala till July 2014, according to State Crime Records Bureau figures.