Chandigarh: According to the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) report cases related to child sexual crimes are fast increasing, witnessing nearly 26% increase in such cases in the past one year 2023-24 as compared to previous year. It was observed that maximum number of 7400 rapes, sexual molestation of children have been reported in Delhi during the year, followed by 3178 cases reported in Mumbai, 1578 cases reported in Bangluru, 748 cases reported in Jaipur. Whereas 46% increase in child abuse cases was reported in Karnatka state and fast rising graph of such cases is a matter of concen.
According to the some of the headlines appeared in newspapers in recent past sometime, a four years old female child of Nursery class was sexually assaulted by the dtiver, conductor and the helper of a school bus at Ghaziabad against whom a case of gang rape was registered by the police. Question arises why there was no female attendant in the school bus to provide security to children by the school. In another recent case reported at Ratlam, a five years old female child was raped by a minor male boy, son of a school employee. Similarly, a class IV employee sexually exploited two minor boys in a school at Thanre News of a digital rape of a female child was reported in a leading public school of Noida when a protest was made by large number of parents of the students.
Question arises about the security of minor children studying in schools and the parents hesitate to send their children to educational schools in the absence of security arrangements provided by the school management raising a question over ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao’ initiated by the government and most of the parents have lost confidence in sending their children to schools in the absence of security arrangements provided by most of the school management.
A survey as regard increasing cases of sex-exploitation of minor children reveals that display of porn videos on mobile phones and laptops are the root cause of increasing sex exploitation among minors, which reminds of a recent case reported in Mumbai in which two minors of age around 12 had sexually assaulted a five years old female child when she was alone in the house because of working parents. In most of the cases, working parents employ care-takers to look after their minor children in their absence and even such minors have been seen as unsafe by their care-takers.
