New Delhi: The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, which was passed by the Lok Sabha on Tuesday puts in place several children friendly measures to be followed during investigation and trial of cases pertaining to child sex abuse. In cases of heinous sexual offences against children, the new legislation shifts the burden of proof on the accused, the Women and Child Development Ministry, which got the legislation...
12:26 AM, May 23, 2012
Pune: Seven girls staying at a residential school run by the state government in Yerawada have finally broken their silence and accused the headmaster of making sexual advances. Despite this, the Social Welfare Department has only issued a show-cause notice to the person concerned asking him why he should not be terminated from service. The matter has been put up for further inquiry, but no FIR has been lodged against...
11:08 AM, May 21, 2012
New Delhi: The second episode of Aamir Khan's much talked about television show Satyamev Jayate deals with the issue of child abuse. Given the huge positive feedback generated by the pilot episode that tackled the contentious subject of female foeticide both in rural and urban India, the second episode is even more explosive in form and content. According to the sources, Aamir has been working with a string of NGOs...
11:54 AM, May 13, 2012
New Delhi: The second episode of Aamir Khan's much talked about television show Satyamev Jayate deals with the issue of child abuse, according to sources. Given the huge positive feedback generated by the pilot episode that tackled the contentious subject of female foeticide both in rural and urban India, the second episode is likely to be even more explosive in form and content. According to the sources, Aamir has been...
03:23 PM, May 11, 2012
The three-month-old baby, beaten up badly by her father, succumbed to a massive cardiac arrest on Wednesday. ...
11:50 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Bangalore: Baby Afreen lost her battle for life in a Bangalore hospital on Wednesday. The three-month-old baby was simply unable to bear the brutal torture she suffered at the hands of her own father, all because she was born a girl. The infant succumbed to a massive cardiac arrest on Wednesday morning. And now, her broken-hearted mother is demanding justice. "He killed my baby. He should not be left free...
09:45 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Baby Afreen's mother Reshma called for the strictest punishment for her husband after Afreen died on Wednesday. ...
01:36 PM, Apr 11, 2012
Bangalore: Three-month-old baby Afreen, who was allegedly beaten and abused by her father, died of cardiac arrest in Bangalore on Wednesday. Afreen, who was admitted to Bangalore's Vani Vilas hospital on Sunday, suffered a massive cardiac arrest on Wednesday at 10:40 AM and died at 11:10 AM after all efforts to revive her by the doctors failed. Professor of Paediatrics at Vani Vilas Hospital R Premalatha said that multiple convulsions...
11:42 AM, Apr 11, 2012
CHENNAI: Denying the joys of sexual intercourse to people over 50, is directly related to the increasing instances of child sexual abuse in the country, says noted sexologist Dr Narayana Reddy. After releasing an extensive study titled Sex and the Aging Indian, accumulated over two decades, Dr Reddy pointed out that a large number of elderly people were denied sex, causing this problem. It is almost an established train of...
08:24 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Bangalore: Baby Afreen, the three-month-old baby, who was allegedly beaten and abused by her father, is in a semi-comatose state and doctors say that her condition has worsened. The Vani Vilas hospital, where Afreen is admitted, has sought help from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS) for Afreen's treatment. Afreen continued to be on life support on Wednesday. Resident Medical Superintendent (RMS) Somegowda said the baby...
08:19 AM, Apr 11, 2012
Baby Afreen, the three-month-old baby, beaten and abused by her father continues to be critical and on life support. ...
11:37 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Bangalore: Baby Afreen, the three-month-old baby, beaten and abused by her father continues to be critical and on life support. Her father, who is believed to have done this because he wanted a boy, has been arrested and sent to judicial custody. The baby was beaten, battered and burnt with cigarettes, but now her mother has said that she cannot take the abuse of her child anymore. Reshma Banu has...
09:21 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Watch hospitals become shops and doctors and nurses become touts. Watch government hospital staff selling newborns and infants. Watch a Cobrapost and IBN-Network Expose - The Baby Bazaar tonight at 9 pm. ...
12:39 PM, Apr 10, 2012
New Delhi: Two-year-old Falak was taken off the ventilator on Friday and the doctors at AIIMS say the baby girl has shown marginal improvement in last 24 hours. But the survival chances are dimming for Falak. The two year old's chest infection has been cured. Dr Deepak Agarwal said "If the situation worsens again, we will put her back on it." It has been three weeks since she was abandoned...
04:57 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Three weeks since she was abandoned in a battered state at Delhi's AIIMS hospital, Baby Falak may be taken off ventilator on Friday. The two-year-old child is responding well to medication and her lung and blood infection has receded. Doctors are now waiting for the brain infection to subside, after which they will conduct another surgery. The police have made four arrests in connection with the case till...
10:18 AM, Feb 10, 2012
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