The MeToo movement that took the world by storm has led to a 14 per cent rise in reporting of sexual crimes during its first three months across the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries.
According to the World Health Organisation, one in three women worldwide has been a victim of sexual and/or physical violence in her lifetime, making it a leading cause of death in women and girls. Reports suggest the abuse remains largely unreported due to impunity, silence, stigma, fear and shame.
The security guard of a playschool was arrested for allegedly sexually harassing a two-and-a-half-year-old girl in northwest Delhi's Pitampura earlier this month, police said on Wednesday. The child had joined the playschool in August.
Gurugram Police PRO Subhash Bokan said that a case in this connection has been booked under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSC) Act, after the victim's mother approached the concerned police station on Monday
The district administration, police, Child Welfare Committee (CWC) and District Child Protection Unit (DCPU) of Kalahandi initiated the probe after local news channels reported alleged sexual abuse of an eight-year-old HIV positive girl, who was an inmate of the centre.
A man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a six-year-old girl in outer Delhi area, officials said Tuesday.
The Kerala Police has arrested a madrassa teacher accused of sexually abusing three children, an official said on Monday.
On the basis of the revelation, the police have slapped sections of rape in the case, which is being investigated by the Crime Branch of the Haryana Police.
An anonymous letter from an insider has red-flagged the promotion of Senior Captain D.X. Pais to the post of Executive Director, citing previous cases of alleged sexual harassment against him.
The woman on Wednesday filed a complaint in North Avenue police station alleging that she had been raped by the man who had promised to marry her.
The victim was rescued and was medically examined following which the accused was booked under POCSO act
A Delhi court on Monday directed the CBI to appoint within two days a special public prosecutor in the Muzaffarpur shelter home sexual assault case.
A 42-year-old man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly raping his minor daughter for five years in Odisha's Ganjam district, police said.
According to the allegations leveled by the girls, they were harassed sexually, physically and mentally by the in-charge of the shelter home, Simanchal Nayak, for the past two years.
Mother of two, Chahat Khanna narrated her ordeal that she allegedly faced at the hands of her estranged husband Farhan Mirza.
Maneka Gandhi had, on October 3, written to Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asking him to remove the time limit for reporting child sexual abuse and allow people to complain even "10-15 years later".
The court said this in the course of hearing of the sexual abuse of 34 girls in the shelter home run by an NGO at Muzaffarpur in Bihar.
The victims, in the age group of 9 to 10 years, were allegedly ragged and their private parts tied with 'manja' (string) by the accused, Parbhani's deputy superintendent of police Sanjay Pardeshi said.
While talking to a leading magazine, American singer Lady Gaga revealed how her rape trauma still haunts her.
The monk ran an institution called "Prasanna Jyoti Buddhist School and Meditation Centre" at Mastipur village in Bodh Gaya where the 15 children - all hailing from Karbi Anglong district in Assam - were studying.
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