Child Abuse
- Child abuse constitutes all forms of physical or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, and exploitation resulting in a child’s ill health, survival and development.
- Physical abuse of a child is defined as those acts that cause physical harm such as threatening, beating, kicking and hitting the child.
Sexual Abuse
- Sexual harassment is a form of power and dominance of one person over another, which can result in harmful consequence
The POCSO Act, 2012
- The Ministry of Women and Child Development championed the introduction of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012.
- People who traffic children for sexual purposes are also punishable under the provisions relating to the Act.
Objectives of the POCSO Act, 2012
To protect children from the offences of
- Sexual assault
- Sexual harassment
- Pornography
- To establish Special Courts for speedy trial of such offences. the victim.
- It refers to inappropriate or forced sexual contact. Adolescent girls and women encounter sexual harassment in different forms.
- Sexual abuse is more common at workplaces.
- Verbal remarks, comments, gestures and looks are the most common forms of abuse.
- This results in psychological distress, physical illness and eating disorders in the affected individuals.