Child Abandonments

In a horrific case of torture and child labour in Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar, an 11-year-old girl was assaulted in Nayapalli while she was illegally employed as a house help.

A 21-year-old youth was booked for allegedly sexually abusing his minor cousin for around 11 months after she delivered a child in a school toilet and abandoned the newborn on a vacant plot of land, police said on Sunday.

The Delhi High court on Friday quashed and set aside the order of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) obstructing the inter-country adoption of a minor child to a foreign couple.

A newborn girl found abandoned in a garbage bin earlier this month with an animal bite mark on her leg has been handed over to the Child Welfare Committee after treatment at a hospital in Delhi, officials said today.

A 40-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly abandoning her 4-month old daughter on July 25 at the railway station in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, a police official said on Friday.

When the alarm sounds at Jikei hospital in southern Japan, nurses race down a spiral staircase. Their mission: to rescue an infant left in the country's only baby hatch.

The child was found last week in a Belagavi village. She had several burn marks, particularly those of cigarette butts, including on private parts. An iInitial probe ruled out sexual assault. The police now suspect she was a victim of black magic.

A two-day-old baby girl was found abandoned in Bengaluru on Tuesday night.

Over 90 policy and rights groups around the world published an open letter on Thursday urging Apple to abandon plans for scanning children’s messages for nudity and the phones of adults for images of child sex abuse.

More than 90 policy and rights groups around the world will publish an open letter on Thursday urging Apple to abandon plans for scanning children's messages for nudity and the phones of adults for images of child sex abuse.

As many as 30,071 children were orphaned, lost a parent or abandoned mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic as per data submitted by different states till June 5, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) informed the Supreme Court.

The National Commission of Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that there are 9,346 children, who have been abandoned, orphaned or lost a parent to the COVID-19 pandemic as per the data submitted to it by different s

Police came forward to help an abandoned child living with a pet dog in Muzaffarnagar. As per Ankit, the 10-year-old child, his father is in jail and his mother has left him.

Two weeks after the Chennai Police rescued a newborn baby boy from a pile of garbage, the government has handed over the child to a non-government organisation paving the way for its adoption.

A mother fought off two men who tried to kidnap her little daughter in a dramatic incident in Delhi on Tuesday that was caught on security cameras. As the woman retrieved her daughter from the bikers, two neighbours showed the presence of mind to force the kidnappers to abandon the motorcycle, which the police have now seized.

In a horrific case of torture and child labour in Odisha's capital Bhubaneswar, an 11-year-old girl was assaulted in Nayapalli while she was illegally employed as a house help.

A 21-year-old youth was booked for allegedly sexually abusing his minor cousin for around 11 months after she delivered a child in a school toilet and abandoned the newborn on a vacant plot of land, police said on Sunday.

The Delhi High court on Friday quashed and set aside the order of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) obstructing the inter-country adoption of a minor child to a foreign couple.

A newborn girl found abandoned in a garbage bin earlier this month with an animal bite mark on her leg has been handed over to the Child Welfare Committee after treatment at a hospital in Delhi, officials said today.

A 40-year-old woman was arrested for allegedly abandoning her 4-month old daughter on July 25 at the railway station in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, a police official said on Friday.

When the alarm sounds at Jikei hospital in southern Japan, nurses race down a spiral staircase. Their mission: to rescue an infant left in the country's only baby hatch.

The child was found last week in a Belagavi village. She had several burn marks, particularly those of cigarette butts, including on private parts. An iInitial probe ruled out sexual assault. The police now suspect she was a victim of black magic.

A two-day-old baby girl was found abandoned in Bengaluru on Tuesday night.

Over 90 policy and rights groups around the world published an open letter on Thursday urging Apple to abandon plans for scanning children’s messages for nudity and the phones of adults for images of child sex abuse.

More than 90 policy and rights groups around the world will publish an open letter on Thursday urging Apple to abandon plans for scanning children's messages for nudity and the phones of adults for images of child sex abuse.

As many as 30,071 children were orphaned, lost a parent or abandoned mostly due to the COVID-19 pandemic as per data submitted by different states till June 5, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) informed the Supreme Court.

The National Commission of Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that there are 9,346 children, who have been abandoned, orphaned or lost a parent to the COVID-19 pandemic as per the data submitted to it by different s

Police came forward to help an abandoned child living with a pet dog in Muzaffarnagar. As per Ankit, the 10-year-old child, his father is in jail and his mother has left him.

Two weeks after the Chennai Police rescued a newborn baby boy from a pile of garbage, the government has handed over the child to a non-government organisation paving the way for its adoption.

A mother fought off two men who tried to kidnap her little daughter in a dramatic incident in Delhi on Tuesday that was caught on security cameras. As the woman retrieved her daughter from the bikers, two neighbours showed the presence of mind to force the kidnappers to abandon the motorcycle, which the police have now seized.