India child sex victims 'humiliated' - Human Rights Watch
Source: BBC
Child victims of sexual abuse in India are often mistreated and humiliated by police, says the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a new report.
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The report says sexual abuse is "disturbingly common" in Indian homes, schools and care homes.
Reports say more than 7,200 children, including infants, are raped every year in India. Child rights activists believe many more cases go unreported.
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The 82-page report - Breaking the Silence: Child Sexual Abuse in India - was released in the Indian capital, Delhi, on Thursday morning.
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"Children who bravely complain of sexual abuse are often dismissed or ignored by the police, medical staff, and other authorities," said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director of HRW.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-21352102
That kind of judicial climate enables those like the rape crew who rape/murdered that woman on the bus.
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...here (pdf): Breaking the Silence
An earlier report, Study on Child Abuse India 2007 was discussed in this BBC article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6539027.stmhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6539027.stm
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Describing the findings of the study as "disturbing", Ms Chowdhury called for an end to the "conspiracy of silence".
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Dr Kacker said a disturbing finding of the study had been that 70% had not reported the abuse to anyone.
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In India, parents are often reluctant to admit child abuse and sexual abuse of children involving family members is almost always hushed up.
Perhaps that is why - as the study shows - more than 50% of the young adults surveyed wanted the matter of abuse to remain within the family.
Only 17% of the abused young adults wanted harsh punishment for the abusers.
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India is home to almost 19% of the world's children. More than one-third of the country's population - 440m people - is made up of children below 18 years of age.
