• Urmila Kumari
• Dr. Kriti Das Gupta
• Dr.Binod Prasad Karan

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a universal problem with grave life-long outcomes. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines CSA as “the involvement of a child in sexual activity that he or she does not fully comprehend and is unable to give informed consent to, or for which the child is not developmentally prepared, or else that violate the laws or social taboos of society.” The term CSA includes a range of activities like “intercourse, attempted intercourse, oral-genital contact, fondling of genitals directly or through clothing, exhibitionism or exposing children to adult sexual activity or pornography, and the use of the child for prostitution or pornography. Child sexual abuse occurs predominantly in domestic settings, most commonly in the offender’s or victim’s home. A smaller but significant proportion of incidents occur in organisational settings, including schools. In 2007, Ministry of Women and Child Welfare, supported by UNICEF, save the children and Prayas conducted a study to understand the magnitude of child abuse in India, they found that 53.22% children faced one or more forms of sexual abuse; among them, the number of boys abused was 52.94%. India shelters 430 million children, approximately one in five children (individuals under age 18) in the world and the government assesses that 40 % of India's children are susceptible to intimidations such as trafficking, homelessness, forced labour, drug abuse, and crime. Every 2nd child is being exposed to one or the other form of sexual abuse and every 5th child faces critical forms of it. They all are in need of protection. Reporting is a difficult decision to be made by the survivors, many fear revictimizations through the criminal justice system and fear they may be blamed for it.

Sexual Abuse, Victimisation, Behavioural, Psychological, Physical, Interpersonal, CSA, GOI, WHO, UNICEF, Human Rights, POSCO, Childline, NGO

"Sexual Abuse with Children, A critical issue in India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no.151-163, August-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808662.pdf

"Sexual Abuse with Children, A critical issue in India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 8, page no. pp151-163, August-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1808662.pdf