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Nine-year-old Ansh Sehgal refused to go to the boys’ toilet in school alone. His teacher could not understand why. The child kept hovering outside the toilet but would not enter — unless someone agreed to accompany him. When the school counsellor tried to get Ansh to talk about his fears, he clammed up. It was only after he was sent to a psychologist that he revealed that some senior boys had sexually abused him in the toilet. Like most other abused boys, Ansh suffered in silence.
The ‘Study on Child Abuse: India 2007’ conducted by the Ministry of Women and Child Development acknowledges that child sex abuse takes place in schools — and how. One out of every two children in schools have faced sexual abuse. And overall, more boys than girls face various forms of sexual abuse — ranging from inappropriate touch, exposure to pornography or violent sexual assaul
......The abuse might begin with curiosity leading to mild experimentation, then turn into harassment and finally take the form of an expression of power, adds Delhi-based psychotherapist Suneel Vatsyayan.....The Hindustan Times http://http://www.hindustantimes.com/storypage/storypage.aspx?id=1cb28e5a-5c3c-46e3-98d8-7a4f104adb18
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