The words “child” and “abuse” don’t go together, yet society has juxtaposed them through its depravity and moral turpitude. Read Part 1 | ‘I was raped at 7, torture continued for 11 years’: A child abuse survivor’s accountWhen I look at the reality today my heart bleeds. I firmly believe that the beginnings of abuse are manifest in some form of bullying at the school level: verbal, cyber, emotional and physical. The school must have an inbuilt mechanism whereby all personnel remain vigilant about bullying behaviour and approach it in the same way as a category of child abuse. Class assemblies, citizenship lessons, anti-bullying weeks, e-safety days alongside a strong student counsel and prefect body are essential to mitigate the first signs of child abuse or bullying at the student level.

Source: Hindustan Times September 28, 2017 03:11 UTC