Child Molestation

The woman allegedly pretended to be a homeschooled 14-year-old girl to prey on middle schoolers and engage in sex acts with younger boys.

A case has been registered against a Russian national for allegedly sexually abusing a six-year-old child during a children's camp in Goa's Arambol village, a top police said on Wednesday.

The victims, aged 2 to 14, were under Zakrzewski's care when the abuses took place and all of the crimes happened between 2014 and 2019.

Of the total number of child abuse cases reported in Kerala in 2022, most of the offences took place at the residence of the survivors itself, according to a report compiled by the state child rights panel.

A 30-year-old woman was killed after she was allegedly thrown out of a running train for fighting back a man who tried to molest her in Haryana's Fatehbad district. She was on the train with her nine-year-old son, the police said.

Cases of molestation and crimes under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act should be registered only upon the recommendation of an ACP and with the permission of the zonal DCP, Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey said.

Holding that a four year-old child can not be expected to give cogent evidence with regard to the sexual assault on her, the Madras High Court has set aside a trial court order acquitting a school teacher in Puducherry charged with the crime on the

The West Bengal Child Protection Commission (WBCPC) on Thursday wrote to the Election Commission of India (ECI) seeking to know the reasons behind the "transfer" of a central force jawan, who is accused of molesting a minor girl, without arresting hi

A special POCSO court in Mumbai has denied bail to a man accused of molesting a five-year-old girl, saying even though the girl is a child, it cannot be said she is not aware of "good touch or bad touch".

One is driven to call out the judge of the Nagpur bench of the Mumbai High Court, who, in an extraordinarily retrograde judgement, has ruled that the offence of sexual assault under Section 7 of the POCSO Act does not apply when a child is molested, and cannot be considered a victim of attempt to rape unless there is "skin to skin" contact.

A French national detained in Indonesia on suspicion of molesting over hundreds of children has died by apparent suicide, police said Monday.

A 47-year-old man was arrested for allegedly molesting a 9-year-old girl at Agripada in south Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.

A nine-year-old boy was sexually assaulted allegedly by his father in Maharashtra, police said on Friday.

A village woman in Haryana's Hisar district has accused her three uncles of sexually assaulting her with the consent of her parents when she was a child, police said on Saturday.

Sushil Kumar has joined Yogeshwar Dutt in taking exception to a wrestler being portrayed as a child molester in the movie Commando 3.

The woman allegedly pretended to be a homeschooled 14-year-old girl to prey on middle schoolers and engage in sex acts with younger boys.

A case has been registered against a Russian national for allegedly sexually abusing a six-year-old child during a children's camp in Goa's Arambol village, a top police said on Wednesday.

The victims, aged 2 to 14, were under Zakrzewski's care when the abuses took place and all of the crimes happened between 2014 and 2019.

Of the total number of child abuse cases reported in Kerala in 2022, most of the offences took place at the residence of the survivors itself, according to a report compiled by the state child rights panel.

A 30-year-old woman was killed after she was allegedly thrown out of a running train for fighting back a man who tried to molest her in Haryana's Fatehbad district. She was on the train with her nine-year-old son, the police said.

Cases of molestation and crimes under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act should be registered only upon the recommendation of an ACP and with the permission of the zonal DCP, Mumbai police commissioner Sanjay Pandey said.

Holding that a four year-old child can not be expected to give cogent evidence with regard to the sexual assault on her, the Madras High Court has set aside a trial court order acquitting a school teacher in Puducherry charged with the crime on the

The West Bengal Child Protection Commission (WBCPC) on Thursday wrote to the Election Commission of India (ECI) seeking to know the reasons behind the "transfer" of a central force jawan, who is accused of molesting a minor girl, without arresting hi

A special POCSO court in Mumbai has denied bail to a man accused of molesting a five-year-old girl, saying even though the girl is a child, it cannot be said she is not aware of "good touch or bad touch".

One is driven to call out the judge of the Nagpur bench of the Mumbai High Court, who, in an extraordinarily retrograde judgement, has ruled that the offence of sexual assault under Section 7 of the POCSO Act does not apply when a child is molested, and cannot be considered a victim of attempt to rape unless there is "skin to skin" contact.

A French national detained in Indonesia on suspicion of molesting over hundreds of children has died by apparent suicide, police said Monday.

A 47-year-old man was arrested for allegedly molesting a 9-year-old girl at Agripada in south Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.

A nine-year-old boy was sexually assaulted allegedly by his father in Maharashtra, police said on Friday.

A village woman in Haryana's Hisar district has accused her three uncles of sexually assaulting her with the consent of her parents when she was a child, police said on Saturday.

Sushil Kumar has joined Yogeshwar Dutt in taking exception to a wrestler being portrayed as a child molester in the movie Commando 3.