NEGLECTED CHILDHOOD & DEPRIVED DREAMS: A SOCIO LEGAL STUDY ON SEXUAL CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE POSCO ACT, 2012
Dr. Seema Goyal
Assistant Professor of Law, Assistant Professor, H.L.M. Law College, Duhai, Ghaziabad – 245101, U.P.
ABSTRACT: Sexual Crimes have detrimental effect on the controlling activities of the society. Across justice system it is imperative to grant right to everyone. Every State is under legal obligation to implement the laws and protect right for everyone, but implementation is abysmal. As a result, sexual victims undergo hardship. The consent age for sex is also a controversial and debatable problem in question in our Country since last many decades, wherein dominion heritage, intellectual values, civilization, cultural beliefs, legislative amendments & judicial reforms come into collision. Recently, many judicial amendments have badly influenced the existence, living and decency of teenagers & youngsters, who are often stuck between sexual agency and social control. The United Nation has also taken protective measures to combat this problem and have encouraged all member States to enforce International Conventions to solve this problem at world level. It is also contended that the new Laws and regulations, while attempting to defend children from sexual abuse, but also have created new issues for youngsters who are engaged in mutually agreed sexuality Thus, the statutes has enhanced the power of families and communities over adolescents’ sex \relations, and it has limited their approach to spermatic and sexual fitness care. There is urgency to balance the interests of safeguarding youth’s decency, morality, health and autonomy, and to identify the diversification, multiplicity and complications of youngster’s sex relations. Denying and limiting children to their rights will not only affect them, but also hinders the progress of a Nation.
KEY WORDS: Controversial, abysmal, detrimental adolescent, diversification.