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According to the police, an 18-year-old Dalit miss from Pathanamthitta territory had faced intersexual maltreatment and battle since the property of 16. The alleged incidental came to airy erstwhile volunteers of the Kerala Mahila Samakhya Society met the girl, a district-level athlete, during a tract visit.
As galore arsenic 44 kid intersexual maltreatment survivors successful Kerala are reported to person died by termination since 2016, authorities information nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, shows. The data, presented successful the authorities assembly past month, besides shows that 31,000-odd cases person been registered successful the past eight-and-a-half years of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led government’s regularisation successful the state.
The information comes a period aft Kerala Police registered arsenic galore arsenic 30 cases and arrested 57 radical successful the alleged rape and intersexual maltreatment of a Dalit miss implicit respective years.
According to the authorities data, Kerala reported 31,171 cases nether the POCSO from June 2016 to December 2024. The 8.5 years person besides seen 28,728 arrests.
The authorities besides reported 271 POCSO cases and 175 arrests successful the archetypal 17 days of 2025. Only 2,614 cases person seen convictions contempt POCSO cases being tried astatine dedicated accelerated way courts, the information shows.
Cases pertaining to intersexual battle connected minors person accrued considerably accrued since 2022. While astir 3,000 cases were reported each twelvemonth betwixt 2016 and 2021, it went up to 4,518 successful 2022, 4,641 successful 2023 and 4,594 successful 2024.
Referring to the reported suicides among POCSO survivors, Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairperson K V Manoj Kumar said that “necessary directions had been fixed to each stakeholders to guarantee that the survivors are taken attraction of. One origin is termination inclination has accrued among minors”.
“After undergoing trauma, they volition consciousness depressed. At this stage, they are being fixed intelligence support. Various departments person reported to the committee that POCSO survivors are fixed each support. When the alleged accused are wrong the family, the victims would person to beryllium sheltered successful children’s homes. That whitethorn besides make a slump among them. We person to spot to what grade these interventions are effective,” helium said.
Advocate R S Vijaya Mohan, peculiar authoritative astatine fast-track PCOSO tribunal successful Thiruvananthapuram, said a conception of reported cases pertain to teen affairs.
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“Such cases are accidental and during proceedings some sides settee the cases. When assailants are from wrong the family, children are reluctant to depose against them oregon crook hostile,” helium said.
The kid rights committee chairperson besides echoes the aforesaid presumption connected conviction, saying specified cases “get settled later”.
“Marriage astatine teen property is prevalent among a conception of the tribals,” helium said.
According to the police, an 18-year-old Dalit miss from Pathanamthitta territory had faced intersexual maltreatment and battle since the property of 16. The alleged incidental came to airy erstwhile volunteers of the Kerala Mahila Samakhya Society met the girl, a district-level athlete, during a tract visit.
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