• Dr. Debastuti Dasgupta
• Ms Ruma Saha
• Dr Sharmila Kayal

Child abuse is burning social issues which require immediate attention from every sector. The rate of this crime against children has surprisingly increased in recent years. According to BBC news report government data has revealed that every fifteen minutes one child is getting abused in India. In USA, every 10 seconds a case of child abuse is reported. Although, improvement is done on reporting and awareness in child abuse but only a very few cases get proper attention and redressed. Children are hardly aware of these redressal procedures and there are cases of getting abused sexually by family members in many cases. Apart from this, most of the victims of child abuse are afraid of their abuser and could not talk about it to seek help. So, the prevention of child abuse automatically becomes the responsibility of the adults. To perform this responsibility, first and the foremost is to be aware of the crime when it happened. Media plays an important role in any awareness program. In India media has used its various tools of mass communication to perform these awareness programs; Starting from ad campaign to movies, from regular news reporting, media plays pivotal role in creating and spreading awareness. Social media too has started taking various steps to aware against child abuse. In Facebook different pages has been created to aware people regarding cases related to child abuse and to provide platform to discuss and find redressed ways against this heinous crime. This paper is focusing on the study of how social networking sites like Facebook creates awareness against child abuse and helps in spreading the awareness against it. After thorough literature review, the researchers will take two Facebook pages dealing with child abuse and analyze it to get insight of role of social media to aware and find out redressed ways. This paper will be substantial document which will try to deal with significance of social media in dealing with important societal concerns like child abuse.

"ROLE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES IN SPREADING AWARENESS AGAINST CHILD ABUSE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.102-105, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904G75.pdf

"ROLE OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES IN SPREADING AWARENESS AGAINST CHILD ABUSE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp102-105, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904G75.pdf