Child Sexual Abuse - India

Why does an allegation have to be proved through a departmental enquiry before u report to police? Isn't it their job to substantiate or disprove? Multiple enquiries only ensure the child victim is so many times more revictimied. Why do we always go to inordinate lenghts to, at the expenseof the victim, establish beyond everybody's doubt concrete proof that there was molestation - AKA every other form of sexual violence which does not fall under the definition of rapeor sodomy??Why is that everyone is harping on little girls Are little boys also not molested? Do abusers and molesters start and stop with one child? Also the reasoning for the light senetence by the Judge is hilariosly ludicrous - especially when viewed aginst the alleged raunchy romps by octogenerain Governors. Forget an undesrtanding of senior citizen sexuality, how many of our ersthwhile judiciary are even aware of the complexities of sexual violence - rape trauma syndrome, post traumatic stress, grooming, w

After 19 years, former Haryana top cop jailed for molesting minor Mon, Dec 21 06:13 PM Chandigarh, Dec 21 (IANS) Former Haryana director general of police (DGP) S.P.S. Rathore was Monday sentenced to six months in prison in a 1990 case of molesting 14-year-old budding tennis player Ruchika Girhotra who committed suicide three years later. Rathore was allowed bail by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court special judge J.S. Sidhu immediately after his sentencing. The former DGP can now appeal before a higher court against the CBI court order. Sources close to Rathore said that he would appeal against his sentencing. 'The sentence is very less even though we are happy that he (Rathore) has been found guilty and sentenced by the court,' said retired Haryana government official Anand Prakash, whose daughter was the lone eyewitness to the Aug 12, 1990 molestation of Girhotra in Haryana's Panchkula town, 10 km from here. Girhotra committed suicide three years after the i

A Shrinking World: Changing Realities - Technology and Travel facilitated Sexual Violence against Children While rapid innovative advances in information and communications have created an exciting, new world for anyone with access to the related services, it has also had an immeasurable impact on the sexual exploitation of children. When the borderless worlds created by communications and technology intersect with crime, the associated offenses cannot be but transnational in nature .A spate of recent incidents related to sexual crimes against children occurring in an international arena but with an Indian dimension, is ample testimony that this fundamental violation of childhood is not being ignored by global trends . This also operates within the context of the “Push down Pop up” effect- A term coined to describe an increasing trend of travel to India among registered child sex abusers by alarmed law enforcement from source countries, largely because of the strengthened response of S

Hon'ble Dr Arijit Pasayat, Judge, Supreme Court (Retd) was the keynote speaker with the Hon'ble Shri H. L.Gokhale presiding.Sat. Dec 5, 2009. 5pm. Freemasons Hall, Ethiraj Salai, Chennai 600 008. “Improving the Experiences of the Child Victim in the Criminal Justice System” was chosen as the topic of The Lecture as an outcome of the realities many of our cases encounter. Two examples are The defense taking exception to a 7 year old child who indicated with her hand her breast as the area which was touched by the accused. A 13 year old special needs child who was gang raped by a child in conflict with law as well as adults, committed suicide as she and her family could not handle the difficulties of giving evidence in two separate courts Nowhere in the world was the Criminal Justice System(CJS) written with a child victim in mind. Having to face the criminal justice system that is geared to the needs of adults can be a difficult experience for any victim of crime. When it comes