We are horrified to learn of the rape statistics revealed by the Children Protection Agency of India. Nearly 9,500 minors are raped each year. Over several thousand cases are not reported to the police as the security, protection units do not take action.
Minor girls and young boys are kidnapped and trafficked into red light districts and young boys suffer mutilations and subjected to the status of beggars.
Rape and sexual assaults on minors is on the increase - under-age girls are gang-raped, their bodies are mutilated or burnt. These are blood curling crimes and these brutal atrocities must be ended forthwith. Human rights violations and crimes against children, in most case fall on deaf ears.
Children's voice is voiceless. They are venerable to adult violence and are badly "imprisoned " with no judicial, police or government support. India must eradicate this menace. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights is a farce and ineffective. It seems India's spirituality is being replaced by evil environment - a threat to decent human dignity.
Ramesh Nehru
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