The state of child sex abuse in Lagos
13 y/o girl in care gets tortured for reporting rape
Macau father jailed for sexually abusing his children
Over a million searches a day for child porn in India
Commissioner reveals stats and highlights progress for child sex Abuse in Lagos
By Chijioke Jannah
The Lagos state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Adeniji Kazeem, has said that most of sexual assault cases between January and September 2017 were perpetrated in the afternoon during weekdays.
He stated this on Tuesday at a media parley held at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa to commemorate the Domestic and Sexual Violence Awareness Month.
According to him, 95 percent of the perpetrators of sexual violence in the state are known to the victims.
He said, “the revelation necessitated the need to embark on sensitization campaigns for parents on parenting skills and child abuse prevention tips as well as trainings for children on child’s rights, child abuse, safety and how to preserve evidence."
“While some of the cases have been charged to court, the State Government through the Ministry of Youth and Social Development and other stakeholders, provided shelter for the survivors.”
The Commissioner said all the survivors of sexual assault received medical attention from comprehensive Primary Health Care Centres and referral centres, among other efforts to properly rehabilitate and re-integrate them into the society.
Kazeem disclosed that a total 852 cases of domestic violence has so far been recorded this year out of which there were 564 domestic violence cases, 60 defilement cases, 30 rape cases, 11 attempted rape, 123 child neglect and abuse cases, and 84 other cases.
He also said the trend from the data showed an increase in men coming forward to report cases of domestic violence as a total number of 55 men came forward to report in contrast to 14 men that reported last year.
Kazeem, however, noted that under the present administration, the interventions of DSVRT were gradually breaking the silence around issues of sexual and gender based violence in the State.
“There is a growing confidence urging people to speak out more, there is an astronomical increase in reporting of cases in the media. Lagos has indeed revolutionized the way sexual and gender based violence is being tackled in Nigeria with all the pioneering initiatives of Governor Ambode,” Kazeem said.
Besides, the Attorney General revealed that the State Government has concluded plans to launch a short service code that would afford residents the opportunity of reporting cases of domestic violence, sexual abuse, child abuse and other related offences with ease.
He said the initiative was aimed at ensuring that victims of all forms of abuse reach out to the appropriate agencies and receive timely information on what to do and where to get assistance.
“This would be achieved by members of the public using keywords, that is, ‘Child Abuse to 6820’ or *6820# and an interactive menu browser to get the relevant information from users such as name, location, specific case or complaint which would in turn ensure that the whole response team is automatically activated.
“Anybody that needs to report a case of child abuse, rape or domestic violence or requires a child or a woman to be rescued can make use of the platform and should receive timely and accurate information”, Adeniji said.
Rape victim of Gurgaon child care centre reveals torture for reporting rape
The victim used to be a fun loving child but after the alleged sexual abuse, she went into a shell and had been largely reserved
Leena Dhankhar
Hindustan Times
Ujwal Niketan Child Care Institute during the counselling with child welfare committee chair person Shakuntala Dhull.(Parveen Kumar/HT Photo)
A 13-year-old class 5 student, who is alleged to have been sexually abused by the staff at the Ujwal Niketan, a Child Care Institute (CCI), several times during last one year revealed her ordeal during counselling to Child Welfare Committee (CWC) officials on Tuesday.
The victim and her seven-year-old brother were brought to the CCI at Sector 4 in year 2014. Their mother left them at the child care centre as their father was unable to take care of them.
The 65-year-old caretaker of the centre, Sister Lilly Baretto, was arrested on Sunday night from a church in Sukhdev Vihar, Delhi on charges of handing over children under her custody for adoption against the norms. She is also accused of child trafficking and was booked under relevant sections of the Juvenile Justice Act and the Indian Penal Code.
According to the inmates, the victim used to be a fun loving child but after the alleged sexual abuse, she went into a shell and had been largely reserved.
On Tuesday, while she was being counselled, she requested the CWC chairperson to shift her to another CCI saying other inmates of the centre were harassing her for raising her voice against Sister Baretto.
“I have been asked not to reveal anything during the session. The girls who are close to Sister have threatened me and told me that she will take revenge for putting her driver behind the bars,” the victim said. The driver Madan was arrested in mid-July by the Sector 10 police.
The victim said she was under immense pressure and was not ready to speak in front of other girl inmates. Sources said the moment she was taken to the counselling room, she revealed that many other girl inmates were victims of sexual abuse but were not disclosing the truth.
“She cried and revealed that she was tortured for revealing the sexual abuse and torture at the centre. She said other girl inmates, who were close to Sister Lily and were among her favourites, assaulted her and isolated her from fellow inmates for raising her voice against their Didi (Baretto),” Shakuntala Dhull, chairperson, CWC, said.
The victim, who was not aware of Baretto’s arrest, was relieved at the news.
“If Didi comes out (of jail), she will kill me. When I was coming for counselling today, the girls told me to deny the rape allegation and asked me to keep quiet. I was scared to come here, as I thought even didi will be here and will beat me for opening my mouth,” the victim said.
“She has also told us that several men visited the CCI and sexually abused other girls as well. When they complained to Sister Lily, she used to assault them and even threaten them with rape. Many girls had refused to get their medical examination done at the hospital. Since the accused is arrested, we will get their medical tests done as it would help us in our investigation,” Dhull said.
The three-member observation committee was formed in February by the high court. It comprises Suruchi Atreja, chairperson, Arun Shokeen, member, Panel Advocate DLSA- district legal services authority and Nisha Saini, legal probation officer, district child protection unit.
The committee members visited Ujwal Niketan CCI for routine inspection after receiving a complaint on cruelty to child inmates and missing children and also found irregularities with regard to adoption of children at the centre.
The victim was shifted to another CCI after her counselling session on Tuesday evening.
Seven children, including two girls of the centre, were counselled on Tuesday. They also alleged that they were brutally assaulted when they tried to complain about the torture.
Gurgaon, India
Macau father gets 5 1/2 years jail for
sexual abuse of his kids
A local Portuguese resident was sentenced to five years and six months behind bars on Tuesday for sexually abusing his two children, a two-year-old girl and a five-year-old boy, according to the sentence announced by the Court of First Instance (TJB).
According to the three-judge bench, João Tiago Martins was also sentenced to pay MOP 200,000 to each child.
That's about $25,000 USD.
The defendant’s lawyer, Joao Miguel Barros, told the Portuguese media that he was determined to appeal. He said he was convinced of his client’s innocence and complained that the sentence was merely based on testimony by the two children. The judges, however, ruled that the children’s testimony was credible and that they had not been influenced by their mother when testifying against their father.
Good for the judges!
According to the sentence, the sexual abuse took place on weekends between 2011 and 2016. The defendant was arrested in May 2016 after a criminal complaint by his wife, a local Portuguese national.
The defendant was acquitted of exhibitionism, mistreatment of his children and sexual relations with his daughter.
Despite crackdown, India emerges as one of biggest contributors, consumers of child porn
"The content and consumers of child pornography are growing at a sharp rate. There are no exact statistics but our findings show that search engines get over 1,16,000 queries every day related to child pornography," Indian Cyber Army Kislay Chaudhary said.
Shashank Shekhar | Posted by Ganesh Kumar Radha Udayakumar
New Delhi,
India has emerged as one of the biggest contributors and consumers of child pornography despite a crackdown against such material on the Internet.
Cyber experts told MAIL TODAY that a new smut video is created in India every 40 minutes and Kerala tops the list in uploading such content while Haryana leads in viewing it, on mobile.
Alarmingly, 35-38 per cent of the total porn uploaded on the web is related to children or teenagers. Keywords like "schoolgirls", "teens" and "desi girls" are among the top searched as they lead to child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
Analysis by cyber security experts showed that 35-40 per cent of content downloaded daily from India is pornography, which would be in several thousand terabytes.
"The content and consumers of child pornography are growing at a sharp rate. There are no exact statistics but our findings show that search engines get over 1,16,000 queries every day related to child pornography. The volume of such content can be estimated as every second around 380 people are looking for 'adult' content on search engines. Around 25 per cent of all search engine queries are related to pornography which will be about 68 million search queries a day," said Kislay Chaudhary, director of the Indian Cyber Army (ICA).
C.S.A.M. CONTENT: TIER 2, 3, 4 CITIES MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS
Recent trends show that maximum CSAM content is being shot on mobile devices and tier 2, 3 and 4 cities have emerged as major contributors. Children in rural areas and from underprivileged backgrounds are soft targets but a large number of school students in urban areas are also vulnerable.
Pawan Duggal, noted lawyer and IT expert, told Mail Today that despite stringent directives by the Supreme Court, content related to CSAM is growing. "There is a massive demand for Indian content in the global market as it is much cheaper for them to buy. Websites are flooded with child pornography," he said.
Duggal explained that there are stringent punishments under the IT Act against viewing and sharing of such material but enforcement is lax. He pointed out that the government is aiming to block the websites but is not checking the source of the content.
The focus on the matter grew after Delhi police found objectionable photos of 15-20 children in a phone and laptop of an arrested British national who allegedly sexually assaulted three visually impaired minor inmates of the National Association for the Blind (NAB) in south Delhi's RK Puram.
The ICA research shows Kerala is a major contributor of CSAM content while states like Haryana, Assam, Bihar, Punjab, Delhi and West Bengal are high in viewing it.
URBAN CHILDREN USNG DATING, MESSENGER APPS VULNERABLE
Cyber investigator Rakshit Tandon explained that urban children are falling prey to dating and messenger apps from where their personal pictures are getting leaked and are being uploaded on porn websites.
"Young children are glued to the latest dating and messenger apps but they do not know about the side-effects," he said.
There is no fresh government study on the spread or volume of explicit content but official data shows that there was a 100 per cent increase in cases of publication or transmission of obscene material, including child pornography, using electronic means in just one year - 2012 to 2013.
Acting strict against Internet majors like Google, Yahoo and Facebook as well as instant messaging application WhatsApp, the Supreme Court on Monday directed them to furnish details of complaints they have received in India about the uploading of objectionable content on child pornography, rape and gang rape.
Duggal explained that the country has no central database of such crimes and offenders. According to experts, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) statistics do not provide any information on child pornography cases.
CENTRE BLOCKS 3,522 WEBSITES
However, the Centre recently told the Supreme Court that it has adopted several steps to curb online child sexual abuse content, including blocking 3,522 websites carrying child pornographic materials in June this year.
The ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) has ordered the Internet Service Providers Association of India and the department of telecommunication to disable or remove access to child pornography sites by adopting the IWF list to prevent the distribution and transmission of online CSAM in India.
Earlier, cyber security officials, who function under the CBI, had told the bench that the Internet was a "wild highway" and blocking objectionable content at the source was a technical challenge for which clear guidelines are needed to stop circulation of such material.
A blocked website is up and running again in a matter of days because the business is so lucrative. "Trading of CSAM on the darknet is a bigger worry as it has become a huge market for trading such content. Global buyers are directly buying content from India which gets uploaded to thousands of porn websites," said Amit Dubey, cyber crime expert and ethical hacker.
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