Activists in Poland pull down a statue of a prominent deceased priest, Father Henryk Jankowski, who allegedly abused minors sexually, in Gdansk, Poland. The activists said it was a...
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Congress President Rahul Gandhi, TMC leader Dinesh Trivedi, Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav and others during a candle light vigil over the issue of alleged sexual abuse ...
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Congress President Rahul Gandhi addresses during a protest over the issue of alleged sexual abuse at a government-funded shelter home in Muzaffarpur district, in New Delhi
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RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav greets Congress President Rahul Gandhi as CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury and Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav look on during a protest ove...
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(L-R) CPI leader D Raja, RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal during a protest over the issue of all...
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(L-R) Congress President Rahul Gandhi, TMC leader Dinesh Trivedi, Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav, Former JNU students union (JNUSU) president Kanhaiya Kumar, RJD leader ...
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(L-R) CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury, RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav, Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav, Congress President Rahul Gandhi and others a protest over the iss...
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Police detain Delhi Commission for Women Chief Swati Maliwal during a protest over incidents of chilld rapes in New Delhi.
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Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti at the "Bharat Yatra-Fight Against Child Abuse" campaign in Srinagar.
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Fr Robin Vadakkumchery, arrested, at his parsonage in Kottiyoor
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Policemen are deployed near a house where a 15-year-old girl was set on fire after being raped at Tigri village, near Noida.
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A boy comes down from the terrace of a house where a 15-year-old girl was set on fire after being raped at Tigri village, near Noida, a suburb . The girl is fighting for her life ...
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Australian cardinal George Pell leaves the Quirinale hotel after meeting members of the Australian group of relatives and victims of priestly sex abuses, in Rome. Pell, Pope Franci...
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Activists from Pakistan's Child Rights Movement, rally to condemn a child abuse scandal in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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PPCC President Partap Singh Bajwa meets the injured mother of a 13-year-old girl who died when the two jumped off a moving bus to avoid being sexually assaulted by the conductor's ...
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A silent procession protesting the gang rape of a nun at a convent at Ranaghat, in Kolkata.
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Tennis star Sania Mirza with Chief Secretary of Telangana Ajay Sharma and Hyderabad Police Commissioner Anurag Sharma at an Anti Child sex-abuse rally in Hyderabad.
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Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi at a workshop on Child Trafficking and Abuse in Gurgaon
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Anxious parents come out after attending a parent meeting of Orchid International School where a sexual harassment case on a 4 year girl student was reported, in Bengaluru.
The mahant is a close relative of the girl and after her father's death, he had brought her to the mutt on the pretext of teaching but raped her multiple times for the last five years
Both the 11-year-old and the 9-year-old victims are sisters who refused to go to the madrasa after they accused the teacher of touching them inappropriately
In a bone-chilling incident, a fast track court in Raipur has sentenced a 47-year-old man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment for raping his minor stepdaughter
In Odisha, more than 1,000 cases of rapes of minors have been reported in the first six months of 2019. Uttar Pradesh tops the list with close to 3,500 cases.
The Muzaffarpur and Deoria revelations outraged people’s conscience, but the rot in shelter homes goes far beyond. The failure is pervasive and systemic.