Minor survivor sexually assaulted for the third time in Kerala

In a horrific incident, a minor survivor in Kerala's Malappuram district was sexually assaulted for the third time after she was released from a foster home. The minor was sexually assaulted earlier in 2016 and 2017.

Malappuram (Kerala):A minor girl from Kerala's Malappuram district, who was subjected to sexual abuse earlier, was sexually assaulted for the third time after she was released from a foster home.

According to reports, the 17-year-old girl from Pandikkad, was earlier sexually abused twice in 2016 and 2017 when she was thirteen.

A case was registered under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act against the accused, and the victim was shifted to a Nirbhaya childcare home.

According to a report by the Child Protection Officer, the minor girl was later handed over to her relatives and sent home from the foster home.

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However, the girl was once again sexually assaulted after she left the foster home.

The development comes at a time when the safety of POCSO case survivors after being transferred out of child homes is under the scanner in Kerala.

Questions have been raised about the monitoring and counseling to the victims, as well as the child protection officers, field workers at shelter homes, and the police.

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