Crimes against children Archives | Page 5 of 15

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US: Maths teacher arrested for having sex with a student while asking other students to act as ‘lookouts’, victim’s father booked for child endangerment

OpIndia Staff - 12 January, 2024

It later came to light that the victim's father Mark Crieghton was aware of the abuse. He let Clifton-Carmack visit the 16-year-old at home.

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Kerala court acquits POCSO-accused DYFI worker in rape and murder case of a 6-year-old girl, ‘where is the justice’, asks family as they break...

OpIndia Staff - 15 December, 2023

The court said that the prosecution failed to prove the case against the accused and was based solely on circumstantial evidence which could not be established to prove the accused guilty.

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Palanpur, Gujarat: Mehndi Hussain kidnaps 15-year-old Hindu girl, rapes her after taking to different locations

OpIndia Staff - 8 December, 2023

The victim is a resident of Garh Panthak in Palanpur. Hailing from a very poor family, she was helping her family financially by working in a catering service where she served food.

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UP: Hafiz Irfan who raped an 8-year-old in a madrasa sentenced to life imprisonment by a special POCSO court, verdict in 40 days of...

OpIndia Staff - 22 November, 2023

While pronouncing the judgment, the judge said that due to such crimes, society will never be able to send girls to such institutions for education.

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Kerala: Convict Ashfaq Alam given the death penalty for rape and murder of 5-year-old girl in Aluva

ANI - 14 November, 2023

"These five life sentences will run concurrently," read the court judgment. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 7,20,000 on Alam, a migrant labourer hailing from Bihar.

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