Her husband, Ram Bhawan, a former employee of Uttar Pradesh government, is accused of sexually abusing more than 50 children aged between five and 16 years

Child abuse survivors need parental support more than anything, to deal with the psychological and physical aspects of their ordeal. Such children aren’t old enough to fully comprehend the magnitude of the traumatic experience. Yet conditioning and threats from abusers often prevent them from speaking up. Hence, many children around the world endure sexual abuse […]

Most of us teach our children to stay wary of men around them, as we largely live in denial over the existence of female sexual predators. A recent case of child sexual abuse by a female attendant, at a reputed school, has put this oversight into the spotlight. On Monday, the Mumbai police arrested a […]

According to the data provided by the law ministry, there are over 90,000 pending POCSO cases in the special courts, as of 2016. Of these cases, 17,300 cases are pending in the state of Maharashtra alone.  The POCSO (Protection Of Children from Sexual Offense) courts are special courts, which try the cases of sexual crimes […]

Ludhiana Police has booked a school and the principal, eight days after a girl was molested by a class IV worker of the school. Following a formal complaint by parents of a three-year-old girl from LKG, police filed FIR and suspect was identified as Naresh, a gardener. The school authorities failed to submit a satisfactory […]

Kolkata-based Dr Priya Virmani has launched India’s first-ever charitable Trust, which empowers children who have been victims of trauma and child sexual abuse using creative and innovative methods and therapies.