Child Sexual Abuse - India

Is ignorance bliss at cost of child's well being? February 14, 2005 A senior teacher from a public school in Ahmedabad narrated this incident last week. An eighth standard student, crying, approached her. Her cousin had been touching her up. She had told her mother. The latest incident happened when her mother was away to attend one of the many marriages. The mother was flabbergasted when the daughter told her. But her reaction was simply this: "Beta, tari kaik samjan pher thai hashe (maybe you misunderstood)." The teacher said she called the mother and told about the young girl's frustration. The mother listened quietly but once they got home she scolded the daughter for going and telling it to the teacher. The girl has lost interest in her studies. She thinks it is her fault that her college going cousin has been mixing up affection and lust. She is a victim but she feels guilty and responsible for whatever is happening. Another boy tells his mother that their m...

The Times of India Online Printed from timesofindia.indiatimes.com > Cities> Kolkata IIT scholar held for child abuseTIMES NEWS NETWORK[ THURSDAY, MARCH 03, 2005 11:25:56 PM ] KOLKATA: An IIT Kharagpur research scholar was arrested late on Wednesday night for sexually abusing minor children. The incident — barely months after the arrest of MMS scandal accused Ravi Raj and days before IIT Kharagpur's annual convocation — has left the hallowed institute shocked. The research scholar, Iqbal P. Mohammad, has been suspended. IIT Kharagpur director S.K. Dube said, "It was the children's parents who caught him red-handed. He was handed over to the police immediately. On our part, we suspended him. Since the police investigation is pending, we could not have done more." Iqbal, a lecturer of Kerala college, had joined IIT's Cryogenic Engineering department for a Ph. programme. He had room for himself at the Zakir Hussain residential hostel — the only hostel in IIT wh...

As always in keeping with Tulir CPHCSA's belief, we seek and utilize any platform to keep up the drumbeat against child sexual abuse. Welcome to yet another we hope will make a difference to breaking the silence and evolving suitable responses to ensure children, anywhere, have the right to feel safe all the time from sexual abuse