Thiruvananthapuram: When a six-year-old rape and murder in VandiPiyar in Idukki was grieving by the community, a police statistic showed that there were 627 cases of rape of children registered in the state in the first five months of 2021.
Founds from January 1 to May 31 This year, it was the highest in terms of the average number of cases per month for the past five years from 2016 to 2020.
The highest number of cases was reported in 2019, when 1,313 rape cases were registered in the state.
The number of cases of rape of children increased from 958 in 2016 to 1,313 in 2019, and showed a small swim to 1,143 in 2020.
A total of 1,639 cases of evil that were prevention of children were registered in the first five months of sustainable years, including 15 cases Murder, 89 kidnapping and kidnapping cases, six cases for exposure and neglect, five cases in the ban on children’s wedding laws and 897 cases under other crimes against children.
However, there are no cases with feticide costs, suicidal reduction, mastery of small girls, and buying or selling girls for prostitution has been registered this year, until now.
Causes physical or mental injury, sexual harassment, exploitation, or negligent child treatment that endangers the physical or emotional development of children, etc., is categorized in child abuse.
A survey by the Department of Social Justice in 2019 in this country revealed that there were 11,72,433 families where children were vulnerable to various types of harassment.
This survey was then carried out based on the recommendation by the Shafeeq Committee formed by the government on behalf of Shafeeq, the victim of the 10-year old parents attacked in Idukki.
During last year’s locking days, the CCSE unit (Counter Child Sexpection) The State Police Unit has monitored and found that the website offered child sex abuse (CSAM) which used to have 600 hours per hour every day, a sharp increase to 1,300-1,400 Hit per hour in the state.
“There is a worrying increase of those who access child pornography material on the web, which in all probabilities will also have an impact on increasing children’s sexual abuse,” said Adgp (head office) Manoj Abraham, who oversees the CCSE unit.
, The National Human Rights Commission has lasted a webinar exclusively on this topic, and has suggested a few steps to the state to create awareness among children.
This includes discussing and making children realize their bodies and sexual expressions through sex education.