child sexual abuse

Panaji, March 28 Goa Congress chief Amit Patkar on Saturday claimed that the sex scandal involving the son of a councilor involves more than 100 minor victims, and that the police were initially reluctant to register a case.Soham (20), son of Sushant Naik, a member of the Curchorem Municipal...

Berhampur (Odisha), March 26 A POCSO court here on Thursday sentenced a man to death for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in Odisha's Ganjam district five years ago.Describing the crime as falling in the "rarest of rare" category, fast-track court judge Rohit Lal Panda delivered the...

New Delhi, March 26 – Spiritual leader Ashutosh Brahmachari Maharaj has moved the Supreme Court, challenging the anticipatory bail granted by the Allahabad High Court to Jyotish Peeth Shankaracharya Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati and his disciple Mukundanand Giri in connection with a...

Navsari (Gujarat), March 25 A 38-year-old man who lived with a woman was arrested for allegedly raping her two minor daughters from a previous marriage and impregnating one of them in Navsari district of Gujarat, police said on Wednesday.The accused, who had been in a live-in relationship with...

Panaji, March 25 Two minor girls have come forward to file complaints in connection with a case of alleged sexual exploitation, in which the son of a Goa BJP councillor has been arrested, police said on Wednesday.The Curchorem police in Goa's Kushavati district arrested Soham Naik (20), son of...

Panaji, March 23 The son of a councillor has been arrested in Goa for allegedly shooting and circulating obscene videos of local minor girls, police said on Monday.Superintendent of Police (South) Santosh Desai said the accused, Soham Naik (20), whose father is a councillor in the town of...

Sant Kabir Nagar (UP), March 21 A 24-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl in this area, police said.The accused has been identified as Ravi Chaudhary.According to Circle Officer (Khalilabad) Amit Kumar, the action was taken based on a complaint lodged...

Beed, March 18 A 16-year-old boy has been detained for allegedly sexually abusing a minor girl in the city of Beed, in central Maharashtra, police said on Wednesday.According to police, the six-year-old girl was walking past the house of the accused when he offered her fruit and lured her. The...

Islamabad, March 16 At least 3,630 cases of child abuse were reported across Pakistan in 2025, representing an 8 per cent increase from the previous year, according to data released by a non-profit organization on Monday.Sahil, an Islamabad-based organization that monitors violence against...

Bhandara, March 11 A 54-year-old teacher at a school run by the Zilla Parishad (ZP) has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing female students in Classes 3 and 4 in Bhandara district of Maharashtra, police said on Wednesday.According to police, the incidents of sexual abuse took place...

London, March 11 A British-Pakistani man nicknamed "Killer" and his two younger brothers have been convicted 18 years after they sexually abused four children and a woman in northern England, the UK's National Crime Agency has said.Amar Ilyas, 41, Kamran Ilyas, 38, and Kamar Ilyas, 39, from...

Mathura (UP), March 10 (UP) A man who disguised himself as a religious figure has been arrested for allegedly having unnatural sexual relations with a 14-year-old boy here, police said on Tuesday.He was arrested after a video of the incident went viral on social media.The incident occurred...

Thane, March 10 Police have registered a case against a man for allegedly molesting a 13-year-old girl with a mental disability in Thane district, Maharashtra, officials said on Tuesday.The incident took place in the Bhiwandi area on December 12 last year, but the victim's mother approached...

Mumbai, March 9 The Bombay High Court on Monday described a father's claim that his minor daughter accused him of rape simply out of anger as "far-fetched".Upholding the man's life sentence, a bench of Justices Manish Pitale and Shreeram Shirsat dismissed his plea challenging a March 2020...

Sant Kabir Nagar (UP), March 8 A man was arrested, and two minors were apprehended on Sunday for allegedly raping a 15-year-old girl in the Bakhira area here, officials said.The accused, identified as Abhishek, is around 20 years old, while the two minors are around 17 years of age, they said...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 4 A Kerala court has sentenced a man to a cumulative 18 years in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor girl while tutoring her 11 years ago.The incident came to light in 2024 when the victim was a medical student and recognized someone resembling the...

Washington, March 4 – US senators warned that images of child sexual abuse are being shared globally at a scale that outpaces the identification of victims. A mother testified before a Senate hearing that the material related to her daughter's abuse was "still online" more than 25 years later...

Balrampur (UP), March 1 A young man has been arrested for allegedly raping a teenager with intellectual disabilities, police said on Sunday.The accused, identified as Monu (25), also known as Maqsood, was arrested, police said.The incident occurred on February 27 when the 13-year-old girl...

Guna (MP), February 28 A court here on Saturday sentenced a man to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of repeatedly raping his minor daughter.The victim remained steadfast even after her mother turned hostile during the trial, said a prosecution officer.Sonali Sharma, the judge of...

Thiruvananthapuram, February 28 A special court on Saturday sentenced a former temple priest to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, claiming that he was performing rituals to ward off evil spirits.The Additional Sessions Court (POCSO Act cases) in Thiruvananthapuram...