Child Sexual Abuse - India

Are there any efforts to involve boys and young men in understanding their role in sexual harassment? But Sarita's unnecessary death did not go in vain, at least legally. Tamil Nadu now has the Prohibition of Sexual Harassment Act. But then again that has not really deterred boorish lots from continuing with their sexual harassment or encouraged young women from taking a stance Click on the following link to know why http://hindu.com/2002/08/ 07/stories/ 2002080707750300.htm

GENEVA ¦ 12 July 2012 - Children with disabilities are almost four times more likely to experience violence than non-disabled children, according to a review commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) and published today in the medical journal The Lancet. Findings from the review indicate that children with disabilities are: 3.7 times more likely than non-disabled children to be victims of any sort of violence; 3.6 times more likely to be victims of physical violence; and 2.9 times more likely to be victims of sexual violence. Children with disability associated with mental illness or intellectual impairments appear to be among the most vulnerable, with 4.6 times the risk of sexual violence compared with their non-disabled peers. The review provides the strongest available evidence on violence against children with disabilities. The 17 studies included reflect data from 18,374 children with disabilities from high-income countries - Finland, France, I

  http://www.salon.com/2012/07/01/meet_pedophiles_who_mean_well/ Sunday, Jul 1, 2012 06:30 AM IST The men behind VirtuousPedophiles.com are attracted to children but devoted to denying their desires (Credit: iStockphoto/xrrr) Nick Devin is a happily married man in his mid-60s with four grown children. “I have advanced degrees from prestigious universities, a very good job, a lot of friends and am well-respected in my community,” he writes on his Web site. “In short, I have a very good life.” But he’s also a pedophile. While he experiences some attraction to adult women, he only fantasizes about pubescent boys — and none of his family or friends know. He says he’s never acted on his desires, though. Devin is the co-founder of a new organization for

http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/how-should-we-talk-to-boys-about-sexual-abuse/ June 12, 2012, 3:21 pm 43 Comments How Should We Talk to Boys About Sexual Abuse? By KJ DELL'ANTONIA Have you talked with your sons and daughters about the Jerry Sandusky case, and if you have, what did you say? Opening arguments in the trial against Mr. Sandusky, along with Amos Kamil’s New York Times Magazine story this weekend about sexual abuse at the Horace Mann Schoo l in New York City, have me revisiting what I’ve said to my children — in particular, my oldest son. “When I was at Horace Mann,” Mr. Kamil wrote, giving a little back story on the 6th Floor blog , “all of these stories were swirling around us. Some of it was rumor, some of it was conjecture, some of it was latent homophobia.” Thirty years and more after the fact, the young men at the center of some of those stories shared them with Mr. Kamil (although he writes that young wome