New Delhi: The proposed law to raise the age of consent for sex from 16 years to 18 will be "undemocratic" and a "backward" step, a Delhi court has said, adding that it will also give a "tool" to the police to harass teenagers. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhat said it while acquitting Sandeep Paswan a native of Uttar Pradesh, charged with kidnapping and raping a minor girl, who had...
11:42 PM, May 31, 2012
Patna: A teenager, who was the main witness in his mother's rape case, was burnt alive in Nawada district Sunday, police said. Chintu Kumar, 17, was set on fire by the rape accused in Garabigha village under Narhat police station, 150 km from here, a police officer, who did not want to be named, said. Chintu's mother was gangraped in 2006 by five men of her village, and he was...
08:31 AM, May 14, 2012
Islamabad: A teenaged girl and three members of her family have been granted bail by a Pakistani court after she was charged with mutilating the genitals of a man who jilted her, according to a media report on Friday. The court in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi granted interim bail to the girl, her two brothers and her father and called them for confirmation of the bail on May...
02:20 PM, May 04, 2012
BANGALORE: Bangaloreans were recently shaken after learning about a 14-year old boy stabbed to death by his friends at Hanumagiri Betta near Bangalore. Just when we thought children were on the rise on every criminals hit list, we realise that the tables have turned, and children, sparing criminals the effort, have started to commit crimes themselves.Juvenile crime is on the rise with young children between the age of 10 to...
09:35 AM, Apr 10, 2012
Beijing: Authorities have indicted five people in central China for involvement in illegal organ trading after a teenager sold one of his kidneys to earn money to buy an iPhone and an iPad. The official Xinhua News Agency says prosecutors in the city of Chenzhou charged the suspects with intentional injury for organizing the removal and transplant of a kidney from a 17-year-old high school student surnamed Wang. Xinhua said...
11:39 AM, Apr 07, 2012
Mumbai: Parents are always a suspicious lot when it comes to their teenage children. But the degrees make all the difference between the unwarranted and the acceptable, as this incident proves. An innocuous lift given by an 18-year-old girl to a stranded commuter during a rickshaw strike ended with the unsuspecting commuter being pounded by the girl's family, who suspected they were having an affair. The girl is the daughter...
01:18 PM, Mar 28, 2012
We, as adults, often reminisce about our adolescence with fondness. Those great years with no worry about life and career, the first crush, the first ...
11:48 AM, Mar 28, 2012
CHENNAI: A 17-year-old girl arrived at the police commissioners office with her aunt and submitted a petition on Wednesday seeking action against a 17-year-old boy, alleging that he had kidnapped and physically tortured her for three months.The girl, a cashier in a canteen run by a popular textile store in T Nagar, alleged that the boy, working as a sales boy in another textile store in the area, would regularly...
08:17 AM, Mar 22, 2012
Chennai: Catholic priest Reverend Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul was arrested in Erode in Tamil Nadu on charges of molesting a child in the US when he was there during 2004, police said on Saturday. Acting on an alert by Interpol, Tamil Nadu police arrested Rev Jeyapaul, 57, on Friday evening and presented him in a court in Erode which ordered that he be handed over to Interpol officials in New Delhi....
10:39 PM, Mar 18, 2012
Jefferson City, Missouri: A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Alyssa Bustamante, 18, pleaded guilty in January to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the October 2009 slaying of Elizabeth Olten in St Martins, a small rural town...
10:36 PM, Feb 08, 2012
New Delhi: While the nation prays for 2-year-old Falak, who is receiving treatment for severe injuries at AIIMS, it is the story of the 14-year-old teenage girl who brought the baby to the hospital that exposes the dismal state of a girl child in India. It is not just the baby, but the teenager too, who is a victim of abuse. Police have arrested 4 people, including her father Vijender,...
08:01 AM, Feb 08, 2012
Mumbai: The Borivli police arrested a 24-year-old woman on Wednesday for allegedly abetting an SSC student to commit suicide. Cops said the woman blackmailed the boy by threatening to slap a rape case on him if did not return an amount of Rs 1,000 which he had borrowed from her brother 15 days ago. According to investigators, the accused identified as Jyoti Pillai works for a private firm in Malad....
06:07 PM, Dec 09, 2011
UN started a campaign to mobilise 150000 teenagers in the US to file a petition the White House to fight against child marriages worldwide. ...
09:21 AM, Nov 16, 2011
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It's world mental health day today -something none of us can afford to ignore. First the disturbing stats: The World Health Organisation estimates that ...
12:28 PM, Oct 10, 2011
Rio de Janeiro: A 14-year-old Brazilian girl says she was raped by multiple men at a prison in the Amazonian state of Para. Para's governor suspended the warden and 20 guards at the Santa Izabel Penal Colony pending an investigation of the charges, authorities said on Monday. The prison, located about 50 km from Belem, the state capital, currently holds around 350 male inmates. The teenage girl went to police...
12:25 PM, Sep 20, 2011
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