Child Sexual Abuse - India

http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/04/pedophiles_psychology_miramont.php   Blackjack With Pedophiles: Why Gambling on Our Ability to Stop Sex Offenders Isn't the Way to Go By LA Weekly Thu., Apr. 19 2012 at 1:48 PM Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett By Dr. Paul Abramson and L.J. Williamson Riot Act is a semi-regular column that challenges conventional wisdom in controversial issues In 2008, a 35-year-old LAUSD teacher got one of his fifth-grade students alone in the classroom at lunchtime, and convinced the 10-year-old boy to masturbate him to orgasm. The teacher continued to molest the boy when other students left the room, including performing oral sex on him, into the following year. The abuse finally ended during the summer, when the father sought to include the teacher in more family activities, at which point the horrified kid blurted out the truth. For a pedophile, the first order of business is to gain access to c...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2131726/A-generation-girls-sexually-corrupted-web.html We are sitting on a powder keg in India - with all the ingredients and the foolishness to make for many multiple explosions with far reaching implications. Young people here like everywhere else, are pushing boundaries to figure their ide ntity - risk taking being part of the charm; in addition we have a socio -cultural situation which frowns on young people ever having any social contact in real time; then we have technology touted as the best way to improve e one's lot in life - economically socially etc so families - often mystified by the new technologies - scrimp and save and watch indulgently as their children live their lives online, and we have free laptops being given away as election winning gestures.. A generation of girls is now being sexually corrupted by the web Insecure and desperate for male attention, Becky was just 15 when she began meeting stranger...

Summer camps, special classes, craft and art workshops, sports coaching,  are starting - Have you checked out if the program  your child is attending has safeguards in place to prevent and redress abuse? http://www.gazette.com/articles/carrier-136865-coach-routine.html Professional perpetrators' exploitation of youth is preventable April 14, 2012 7:03 PM SANDY K. WURTELE GUEST COLUMNIST The trial of Joshua Carrier, former Springs cop, school resource officer, and volunteer wrestling coach has ended. Carrier has been accused of touching, and possibly photographing, the genitals of 22 boys during routine “skin checks” and drug searches. The Carrier case has striking similarities to that of another coach arrested on child sexual abuse charges — former Penn State defensive football coach Jerry Sandusky. Both Carrier ...

A child protection policy (CPP) articulates an organization’s  zero tolerance approach to child abuse. An important step towards achieving this objective  would be for every institution which works with children to develop and adhere to a child protection policy which would have clear cut guidelines and protocols  to  provide for a safe and conducive environment for both children and the adults   with whom they interact. On   the one hand   it helps protect the staff of an organization from allegations of abuse, giving them the confidence to know there is a clear cut system of redress in case an allegation is leveled; On the other, a  CPP will  also help organizations be proactive in safeguarding children.  This is especially significant as  there is enough evidence, both anecdotally and research based, to indicate     offenders often intentionally target child-serving organizations due to the proximity and ac...

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