AN EXAMINATION OF POCSO ACT: GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT, APPLICABILITY AND ITS DRAWBACK
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Herbert ward said “child abuse cast a shadow the length of a lifetime”. Sexual misuse on child are a major smear on society everywhere as it shook’s the human awareness of the general public and retard the typical development of the child. The injury related with sexual abuse can add to captured improvement, and in addition a large group of mental and enthusiastic issue, that a few kids and teenagers may never survive. At the point when sexual abuse goes unreported and youngsters are not given the defensive and restorative help they require, the little innocent children can only feel the pain of the mishappening leaving a scar over the soul and body forever. Also, in the last two decades, an increase in the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases has been shown in children. Children who are victims of sexual abuse often know the perpetrator in some way but they are threatened and sometimes they are also unable to understand what havoc has been done to them. Recognizing the vulnerability of children and short of provision of law for the sexual crime against children and realizing the trauma, the implementation of the POCSO act came into existence for the rights of children to survival, dignity, and compassion. This article the author* discusses the reasons and also the development of the implementation of POCSO act. Applicability of the act in different cases has also been outlined. And finally, at last the limitation of the act has also been highlighted.
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