The POCSO Act Is Limited In Its Understanding Of Child Sexual Abuse

Trigger Warning: Mention Of Child Sexual Abuse A child below 16 is raped every 155th minute and below 10 years of age is raped every 13 hours (Kumar, Chandran, Rao, & Maheshwari, 2019). The issue of child sexual abuse, largely ignored in the public health discourse, is rarely acknowledged as a grave concern in India despite the fact that the rate of sexual abuse has increased from 2.

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