Child Abuse: Are our children safe ??

                Today while we celebrate International Yoga Day, 94 women are 

being tortured in the most vicious human act named RAPE in INDIA. I fear for the future of the baby girl on my mother land. Where safety has become a dream in Mothers womb, inside a Hospital ward, a class room in the School & College, on the Roads and among-st this male dominated society. These atrocities on women are irrespective of the age ranging from 2 years infants to 70 years senior citizens.

                        The outrage on children been increased by 336% in past decade 2001-2011. More than 48 thousand children are victims of this brutal act. From these stats one can clearly understand where do we stand in safe guarding the future of the country. Violence on children is wide spread across the nation but MP tops the chart. 
                            
                        Two innocent girls aged around 10 were brutally raped by friends father in Gujarat. In Mathura two policemen confined a minor tribal girl and harassed her physically. Lots of such instances are repeatedly happening across our nation. In most of the cases the person who commits the crime is not a complete stranger. Most of the convicted people are from the same family or the people who are well known to the children. 
                       
                       There are more than 10 articles written regarding this in Constitution and many laws were made but the progress in avoiding such cases is still unripe fruit The most irritating and unchanged reality in our country is that more than 80% of the child abuse cases are still pending in courts. According to the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012(POCSO) every district there must be a separate session court for hearing these cases and there should be a dedicated public prosecutor appointed to handle such cases.

                       Children should be safe-guarded and we need to educate them how to raise alarms when some one tries to abuse them. Educational institutes must step up and undertake the activities which help children to protect themselves. 

The land of customs and cultures has emerged as the land of rapes the reason for the outrage of the inhuman act is unknown. Protecting child rights is also major responsibility of the politicians and their respective governments though children don't have the right to vote.

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