Set up study panel on rising sex abuse cases

Holding that the need of the hour is to identify the cause first before dealing with effect of such cause, Justice Parthiban on perusing various suggestions offered regards making Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Posco) Act, 2012 more effective, Justice Parthiban said, “The appropriate authorities, who are equally concerned, may take this decision as a cue to initiate action to find a social solution in curbing the despicable menace of pathological behaviour of the perverted kind unleashed on the society.”

Seeking the Committee to consider each case of violence against women and children as a study and come up with social answers, the judge said, “The society must collectively introspect what is it that drives some men to unleash their libidinous rage on hapless children and women of all age.”

The judge also observed, “The cause for such abominable deviant conduct on the part of the perpetrators of sexual crime on children and women is perhaps because of access to uncensored pornographic and erotic materials that are available on the internet 24 X 7. Access to such provocative and lewd sites lead to criminal sensuality that drives the perpetrators to commit such appalling crimes on children and women, in complete depravity.”

“When minds are filled with lust, smoldering all the time by watching pornographic site of all kinds on the handset or otherwise, such crimes are the natural result of the depraved minds,” Justice Parthiban added.