School Teacher Arrested in Kerala for Sexually Abusing a 16-year-old Boy – Report

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October 29, 2016

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A School Teacher arrested in Kerala for being accused of Sexual abuse. A 56-year-old school teacher, Suresh was held and remanded in the judicial custody on the allegation of sexually abusing a teenage boy repeatedly. As said by the Police on Saturday, the accused was arrested on Friday.

Suresh, who is a school teacher used to take classes for students at a Sunday school that is attached to a Syrian Jacobite Church near Kothamangalam that is about 50 km away from Kochi. The said victim and the school teacher Suresh are neighbors.

He has been said to have constantly abused this 16-year-old boy, sexually, since 2015 after threatening him. The Police also mentioned that the victim also used to join his classes at the Sunday school. After recognizing the incident, the teacher has been charged under IPC Section 377 (Unnatural offenses) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act).

The magistrate court has remanded him in a 14-day judicial custody after him being produced there on Friday. The complaint lodged against him included three such incidents of sexual abuse by him on the teenage boy, as said by the Police. However, the cases of sexual abuse have been increasing in the state from the past few years.

The data available on the incidents os sexual abuse in the state shows that there has been a 57% increase in the related crimes in three years, which is alarming. From the data that was produced by the Kerala Police Department in the year 2015, there has been an alarming increase in the rate of violence against children that includes Sexual Abuse.

A report that has been released just a few months back reveal that four children, on an average, will be sexually abused in Kerala every day. Senior Police officers also claim that the ineffective enforcement of Law is the major reason for the surge in the cases. Out of the thousands of cases that have been reported from the past few years, only 53 accused have been convicted in the state.