‘IN ONLY 20 PER CENT OF CASES OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE IS THE OFFENDER A PAEDOPHILE.’
The government undertook a study, the largest of its kind in the world, and brought out the National Study on Child Abuse report, 2007. It had a sample size of 14,771 children
The study examined different forms of child abuse: physical, sexual and emotional abuse, and girl child neglect
It was conducted across five different groups of children: those in a family environment, at school, at work, on the street, and in institutions
Bangalore police on Saturday issued a new set of guidelines for schools which includes Installing GPS and CCTV cameras in their buses, not allowing bus drivers to mingle with children and issuing identity cards to all those who come to pick up children
children were subjected to some form of physical abuse
children faced emotional abuse, an equal percentage of girls and boys
schoolgoing children reported facing corporal punishment In of the cases, parents were the abusers
of those physically abused were abused by their parents
of girls wished they were boys
Goa cases 2012 Madhya Pradesh Chandigarh Madhya Pradesh cases of child rape Delhi cases 2013 Maharashtra Uttar Pradesh
The incidence of crimes committed against children per one lakh population of children:
All India average Chhattisgarh Andaman & Nicobar Islands cases of child rape in terms of percentage share of total crimes committed against children in 2013
Uttar Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh Delhi No. of cases reported (Sec. 366A IPC) 2012 2013 cases West Bengal has reported 486 such indicating a share of 39.7% at the national level followed by Bihar (193) and Assam (129). Six cases of ‘buying of girls under ‘selling section 373 of IPC’ and 100 cases of prostitution of girls under section 372 of IPC’ for during were reported in the country the year 2013 against 15 and 108 such cases respectively in the year 2012. of those arrested for crimes against children were chargesheeted by the police in 2013
is the conviction rate for such crimes in the same year