Child Sexual Abuse - India

Date:10/03/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/03/10/stories/2006031008560100.htm Front Page First local study on child sexual abuse ready Staff Reporter TOWARDS CHILD SAFETY: Andal Damodharan of the Indian Council for Child Welfare, Tamil Nadu, and Chennai Collector N. Murganandam release a workbook on child personal safety in Chennai on Thursday. CHENNAI: The first comprehensive local study on child sexual abuse was conducted and presented by Tulir — Centre for the Prevention & Treatment of Sexual Abuse, at a seminar here on Thursday. The study has found that 42 per cent of the 2211 children, mostly adolescents, surveyed have been abused. The data, collected by self-reporting anonymous questionnaires filled mainly by class eleven students in schools within the Chennai Corporation zone limits, shatters several myths about abuse. The proportion of children abused in the higher income groups was found to be marginally higher than the proportion among children from families with

Newindpress on Sunday Mar 13, 2006 Study dispels myths about child sex abuse in city Friday March 10 2006 08:56 IST Chennai Collector N Muruganandham releasing the copy of the research on child sex abuse. Andal Damodaran of ICCW is also seen CHENNAI: Child rights activists have always known it. Now, it is out in black and white. Forty-two percent of children between the age of 14 and 18 said they were abused and boys were as prone to sexual violence as girls, the first ever prevalence research in Chennai by Tulir, Centre for Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual Abuse, revealed. The study said that 48 percent of the boys, who participated in the study, had been abused, in comparison to 39 percent of girls who reportedly faced abuse. Alankar Sharma, one of the investigators, said, “While the numbers do establish that boys are vulnerable, this does not really indicate that boys are more vulnerable in the larger social reality. Girls report less abuse, given the patriarchy and the st