Basic Vocab
Any individual under the age of 18 years
Who is a child?
The basic right to live, have nutritious food and health care
What is the Right to Survival?
Any nonaccidental physical injury to the child and can include striking, kicking, burning, or biting the child, or any action that results in a physical impairment of the child.
What is physical abuse?
Power denotes physical strength.
False
This is the first thing you do when a child reports abuse to you.
What is the Protocol?
Establishing what you are comfortable and uncomfortable with.
What are boundaries?
Children should be allowed to play, recreate, educate, and take decisions for themselves
What is the Right to Development?
Controlling or hurting a child by using emotions to criticize, embarrass, shame, blame, or otherwise manipulate them.
What is emotional abuse?
If a child touches another child's private part, it is not sexual abuse.
Intention matters
This educational approach teaches children how to identify and respond to unsafe situations.
What is Personal Safety Education?
To rely on another person because you feel safe with them and have confidence that they will not hurt or violate you.
What is trust?
Children should be allowed to participate, express themselves freely, ask for information what they want to know
What is the Right to Participation?
This term refers to unwanted, inappropriate requests for pictures or information that can come from strangers online
What is cyber safety / online grooming?
Child sexual abuse is more common in low socioeconomic strata and only girls, especially specially-abled girls are more prone to abuse
Is CSA observed more in one particular socioeconomic strata or gender?
I don't even know how to say what happened, I just feel weird. And who will believe me?
Why children don't tell us about the abuse they experienced?
This term means agreeing freely and enthusiastically without pressure or fear.
What is consent?
Children should feel safe from abuse, neglect, or exploitation
What is Right to Protection?
Any act, using a child for the sexual gratification of the more powerful person
What is Child Sexual Abuse?
When the child discloses the abuse, the priority task is to confront the perpetrator.
No
I'm glad you told me, I will help you now, you are brave and it's not your fault
What is the first thing you tell a child when disclosure happens in front of you
The failure of a parent or guardian to provide needed food, clothing, shelter, medical care, or supervision to the point that a child's health, safety, and well-being are harmed.
What is Neglect?
These rights apply to every child and the convention entitles every child to claim them
What is UNCRC?
These are noticeable changes in behavior, such as withdrawal, aggression, or fearfulness, that might indicate a child is experiencing abuse
What are the behavioral signs of child sexual abuse?
The perpetrator needs time to plan before he abuses
Yes, but planning time may vary from a few minutes to months
The child is not required to go to the Police station, rather the Police are expected to come to a place where the child is comfortable. An adult the child trusts can accompany the child through all the processes.
How sensitively are children handled according to POCSO?