Child Sexual Abuse

A 34-year-old Indian national, working on a cruise ship, has been sentenced by a federal district court to 188 months in prison for distributing child sexual abuse material, the US Department of Justice said on Thursday.

Microblogging platform Koo on Thursday announced the launch of new proactive content moderation features, geared to provide users with a safer social media experience. The new features developed in-house are capable of proactively detecting and blocking any form of nudity or child sexual abuse materials in less than 5 seconds, labelling misinformat...

Ukraine has accused two Russian soldiers of sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl and gang raping her mother at gunpoint in front of her father, as part of widespread allegations of abuse during the more than one-year-long invasion.

"My own father used to sexually assault me when I was a young girl. He used to beat me up a lot. I was terrified when he came home, and often hid under the bed," she said.

Their three-year-old daughter has been in the custody of German authorities for the last one-and-a-half years.

The government is working on a Digital India Act to incorporate new rules for stopping internet-aided circulation of illegal, criminal and child sexual abuse material, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar said on Friday.

A society or a nation cannot celebrate its achievements if its women and children are not safe, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Thursday, dubbing the crime of child sexual abuse as one of the gravest and disconcerting challenges.

Intra-familial child sexual abuse is a deplorable violation of a child's trust and an "unpardonable betrayal" of the family bond, Supreme Court judge Justice Hima Kohli said on Saturday.

President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who came under fire in October for saying 400 cases of alleged sexual abuse by clergy members did not seem to be "particularly high", said the Church must be held accountable.

Based on inputs from the international police force Interpol, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday raided a house in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut over allegations of sales and distribution of child pornography material online.

Men who marry girls below 14 years will face cases against the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act in Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The decision was taken during a state cabinet meeting on Monday.

A case has been registered against the Station House Officer of the Aiyroor police station in rural Thiruvananthapuram for allegedly forcing and having unnatural sex with a POCSO case accused.

Australia's e-Safety Commissioner, the country's regulator set up to protect Internet users, has accused Microsoft and Apple of not doing enough to protect children from online abuse. In a report, the regulator said that Apple and Microsoft did not proactively screen for child abuse material on iCloud and OneDrive, and did not use any technology to...

The CBI has started an investigation into the alleged defrauding of Amazon customers in the US by two Indian scam artists by planting 'child sexual abuse material' on the computer of unsuspecting customers.

Sexual abuse of children remains a hidden problem as there is a culture of silence and therefore the state must encourage families to report abuse even where the perpetrator is a family member, Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said.

A 34-year-old Indian national, working on a cruise ship, has been sentenced by a federal district court to 188 months in prison for distributing child sexual abuse material, the US Department of Justice said on Thursday.

Microblogging platform Koo on Thursday announced the launch of new proactive content moderation features, geared to provide users with a safer social media experience. The new features developed in-house are capable of proactively detecting and blocking any form of nudity or child sexual abuse materials in less than 5 seconds, labelling misinformat...

Ukraine has accused two Russian soldiers of sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl and gang raping her mother at gunpoint in front of her father, as part of widespread allegations of abuse during the more than one-year-long invasion.

"My own father used to sexually assault me when I was a young girl. He used to beat me up a lot. I was terrified when he came home, and often hid under the bed," she said.

Their three-year-old daughter has been in the custody of German authorities for the last one-and-a-half years.

The government is working on a Digital India Act to incorporate new rules for stopping internet-aided circulation of illegal, criminal and child sexual abuse material, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar said on Friday.

A society or a nation cannot celebrate its achievements if its women and children are not safe, Union Law Minister Kiren Rijiju said on Thursday, dubbing the crime of child sexual abuse as one of the gravest and disconcerting challenges.

Intra-familial child sexual abuse is a deplorable violation of a child's trust and an "unpardonable betrayal" of the family bond, Supreme Court judge Justice Hima Kohli said on Saturday.

President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who came under fire in October for saying 400 cases of alleged sexual abuse by clergy members did not seem to be "particularly high", said the Church must be held accountable.

Based on inputs from the international police force Interpol, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday raided a house in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut over allegations of sales and distribution of child pornography material online.

Men who marry girls below 14 years will face cases against the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act in Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The decision was taken during a state cabinet meeting on Monday.

A case has been registered against the Station House Officer of the Aiyroor police station in rural Thiruvananthapuram for allegedly forcing and having unnatural sex with a POCSO case accused.

Australia's e-Safety Commissioner, the country's regulator set up to protect Internet users, has accused Microsoft and Apple of not doing enough to protect children from online abuse. In a report, the regulator said that Apple and Microsoft did not proactively screen for child abuse material on iCloud and OneDrive, and did not use any technology to...

The CBI has started an investigation into the alleged defrauding of Amazon customers in the US by two Indian scam artists by planting 'child sexual abuse material' on the computer of unsuspecting customers.

Sexual abuse of children remains a hidden problem as there is a culture of silence and therefore the state must encourage families to report abuse even where the perpetrator is a family member, Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said.