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19 August 2016

The deafening silence of child abuse

Child abuse is largely preventable. But the burden of prevention has rested for too long on our children’s tiny shoulders.
Stories of abuse are strange. Sometimes they are blazing headlines — ’18 month old raped in Kolkata’, ‘Teenagers rape toddler in Delhi — but mostly, they silently wrap up inside themselves. This is the story of some of those untold stories, the ones that were desperately locked away in the dusty attics of childhood, untouched and uncleaned..