Real-Time Child Abuse and Reporting System

Abstract

In many countries like India, Child abuse is one of the major social evil leading to poor emotional health of the future citizens. Child abuse and neglect occur in different situations, for a different range of reasons at different places. Children often experience more than one form of abuse at a time. The abuse can take many forms such as physical, emotional, psychological, neglect, domestic violence etc. Recent research by McGill University (2015) showed that emotional abuse of a child may be as harmful as physical abuse and neglect. A child facing abuse in any of the above forms is at risk of being isolated; experience anxiety, depression, and mental trauma; face difficulties in learning and developing social relations. Although there have been many initiatives by NGOs and government and other welfare departments to stop this evil by registering a complaint against the abuser, conducting campaigns, by protesting against abuse and so on. These schemes are only carried out if the crime has already taken place. Thus the abuser can be punished according to the Child Protection and Safety Act but the negative impact it had left on the child remains. This can only be reduced by rehabilitation and this process takes time.