Tag: Sexual Abuse

Washington: The US Capitol Police arrested 302 people for protesting in the Senate office buildings against the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee judge Brett Kavanaugh, who is accused of alleged sexual abuse. In a statement, the police said that 293 people were arrested on Thursday for “unlawfully demonstrating” in the buildings and another nine for […]

New Delhi: Actress Radhika Apte says there is a need to create a culture without sexual abuse of anybody. “I think we need to create culture without sexual abuse for anybody then we will have a work culture,” Radhika told IANS over an email. As an actor, she has to deal with hectic schedules and […]

Chandigarh: Bishop Franco Mulakkal, who has been named in a sexual abuse case by a senior nun, is likely to join an ongoing investigation into the matter with the Kerala Police soon and will hand over charge of his Diocese to his second-in-command during his absence. “It is reported that I am likely to be […]

Dubai: A 46-year-old Indian worker has gone on trial here after he allegedly molested a 5-year-old girl, the media reported on Thursday. According to the public prosecution records, the unidentified Indian man molested the Iranian girl while she was playing outside her house in Dubai’s Al Barsha, the Khaleej Times reported. The girl’s father told […]

Mumbai: Veteran Bollywood actor Jeetendra was on Wednesday accused of sexually harassing his cousin, who has come forward to file a police complaint 47 years after the alleged incident. Jeetendra has dubbed the charges as “baseless”, and a “miserable effort by a jealous competitor to disrupt his business activities”. Jeetendra, whose real name is Ravi […]

San Francisco: After Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced plans to act more aggressively on violence and sexual abuse, the micro-blogging website has now detailed new rules it will implement soon. In an internal email which was obtained by Wired.com, Twitter’s head of safety policy has emailed members of its Trust and Safety Council on new […]

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for global solidarity to fight sexual exploitation and abuse. Speaking at the High Level Meeting on the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Guterres on Monday stressed that sexual exploitation and abuse is a global menace from which no country, institution, or family was immune, reports Xinhua […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the Central and state governments on a plea seeking framing of non-negotiable child safety conditions and implementation of guidelines to protect school children from sexual abuse and murder. A division bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud sought […]

Kanyakumari: Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi on Monday launched an 11,000-km march from here to New Delhi against child trafficking and sexual abuse and urged the youth to participate to ensure the safety and security of children The Bharat Yatra, launched from the Vivekananda Rock Memorial here, is slated to conclude on October 16 in New Delhi. […]

New Delhi: In a bid to curb online child sexual abuse material, the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Tuesday asked all internet service providers (ISPs) to prevent the distribution and transmission of such content into India by adopting and implementing Internet Watch Foundation Resources on or before July 31. The ministry instructed […]

Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit courted a controversy on Tuesday during a press conference after patting the cheek of a woman journalist in Raj Bhavan. The incident took place towards the end of the press conference during which the 78-year-old Governor dismissed the allegation that he was being probed for sexual misconduct by the Union […]

Balasore: A local court here sentenced a 26-year-old man to seven years in prison for sexually assaulting a minor girl in late 2016. According to the prosecution, Ashok Kumar Das (26) of Renupada village under Basta police station lured a minor girl of the same village to a secluded place and sexually assaulted her. The […]

Balasore: A youth was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for ten years by a court here for kidnapping and sexually abusing a minor girl in Odisha’s Balasore district three years ago. Additional District Judge of Balasore Ajanta Sadangi while convicting Jayanta Mallick of Biruan village under Remuna police station limits and pronounced the jail term yesterday, […]

Bhubaneswar: Opposition parties questioned Odisha government’s earnestness in ensuring safety and security of minor girls at residential schools and shelter homes across the State amid rising instances of sexual abuse. BJP alleged that there are discrepancies in the data on sexual harassment against minor girls provided by the SC and ST Development Minister Ramesh Majhi […]

Sundergarh: With no let up in cases of sexual harassment of minor girls in the State, a police complaint was lodged against the headmaster of a residential school on charges of sexually abusing girl students in Bargaon area of Sundergarh district today. As per reports, police detained the headmaster of the residential school operated by […]