Child Abuse

The High Court of Karnataka has held that a new charge under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act can be added to a criminal trial by the order of a Sessions Court judge.

The provision of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, which prohibits child victims from being repeatedly called to testify in court, "gets diluted" once the victim crosses 18 years of age, the High Court of Karnataka has said.

#Justice4EveryChild campaign aims to raise funds to support child victims of sexual abuse and rape who are fighting their cases in court

A 35-year-old Florida woman has been charged with aggravated child abuse as the 4-year-old boy sustained peculiar injuries that landed him in an emergency room in February.

"I was beaten up. I was locked in the bathroom for hours. I don't want to speak to my mother," a young man told the Supreme Court on Monday while recollecting his "traumatic childhood" even as his estranged parents are locked in a divorce battle.

A US association for victims of sexual abuse denounced Monday a former bishop in New York state who admitted to having ignored multiple sexual assaults on children committed by 11 priests over 25 years.

In a significant judgment, the Madras High Court has held that an accused in a POCSO case might be allowed to cross-examine the survivor, who was a minor at the time of occurrence, but an adult(21 years old) now.

A New Zealand-led global investigation into online child sexual abuse material identified more than 90,000 accounts, led to the arrest of hundreds of offenders worldwide and safeguarded 146 children, authorities said on Wednesday.

Saying "I love you" once to a girl is not an intentional insult to her modesty, at most it amounts to expressing a feeling of love, a special court in Mumbai observed while acquitting a 23-year-old man booked under the POCSO Act.

Ex-pope Benedict XVI asked for forgiveness Tuesday for clerical child sex abuse committed on his watch, but aides rejected allegations of a cover-up while he was archbishop of Munich.

Spain's parliament Tuesday agreed to consider opening an inquiry into child sex abuse within the Roman Catholic church in a first in the deeply Catholic country.

Former pope Benedict XVI knowingly failed to take action to stop four priests accused of child sex abuse in Munich in the 1980s, according to a damning independent report published Thursday that risks shattering the ex-pontiff's reputation.

A potentially explosive report into the handling of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church will on Thursday be published in Germany, with former pope Benedict XVI among those in the spotlight.

FIFA has opened an internal investigation after three Gabonese football coaches were charged with sexually abusing hundreds of children, the top international football body said Tuesday.

The Supreme Court has agreed to examine a legal question of whether Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act cases can be quashed on the basis of compromise between the accused and the survivor.

The High Court of Karnataka has held that a new charge under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act can be added to a criminal trial by the order of a Sessions Court judge.

The provision of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, which prohibits child victims from being repeatedly called to testify in court, "gets diluted" once the victim crosses 18 years of age, the High Court of Karnataka has said.

#Justice4EveryChild campaign aims to raise funds to support child victims of sexual abuse and rape who are fighting their cases in court

A 35-year-old Florida woman has been charged with aggravated child abuse as the 4-year-old boy sustained peculiar injuries that landed him in an emergency room in February.

"I was beaten up. I was locked in the bathroom for hours. I don't want to speak to my mother," a young man told the Supreme Court on Monday while recollecting his "traumatic childhood" even as his estranged parents are locked in a divorce battle.

A US association for victims of sexual abuse denounced Monday a former bishop in New York state who admitted to having ignored multiple sexual assaults on children committed by 11 priests over 25 years.

In a significant judgment, the Madras High Court has held that an accused in a POCSO case might be allowed to cross-examine the survivor, who was a minor at the time of occurrence, but an adult(21 years old) now.

A New Zealand-led global investigation into online child sexual abuse material identified more than 90,000 accounts, led to the arrest of hundreds of offenders worldwide and safeguarded 146 children, authorities said on Wednesday.

Saying "I love you" once to a girl is not an intentional insult to her modesty, at most it amounts to expressing a feeling of love, a special court in Mumbai observed while acquitting a 23-year-old man booked under the POCSO Act.

Ex-pope Benedict XVI asked for forgiveness Tuesday for clerical child sex abuse committed on his watch, but aides rejected allegations of a cover-up while he was archbishop of Munich.

Spain's parliament Tuesday agreed to consider opening an inquiry into child sex abuse within the Roman Catholic church in a first in the deeply Catholic country.

Former pope Benedict XVI knowingly failed to take action to stop four priests accused of child sex abuse in Munich in the 1980s, according to a damning independent report published Thursday that risks shattering the ex-pontiff's reputation.

A potentially explosive report into the handling of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church will on Thursday be published in Germany, with former pope Benedict XVI among those in the spotlight.

FIFA has opened an internal investigation after three Gabonese football coaches were charged with sexually abusing hundreds of children, the top international football body said Tuesday.

The Supreme Court has agreed to examine a legal question of whether Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act cases can be quashed on the basis of compromise between the accused and the survivor.