‘School kids must know what is good touch, bad touch’

PANAJI: Stakeholders, at a roundtable dialogue on amendments to the Goa Children’s Act on Saturday, prompt the directorate of training to organise periods on ‘good contact’ and ‘dangerous contact’ for students right from the main level.

Pointing out that children who don't seem to be trained about this are susceptible to repeated abuse, public prosecutor at the Goa Children’s Court, Milana Pinto advised that such talks be held once a month which can also be carried out via counsellors, NGOs or even public prosecutors.

The case of a kid being time and again raped from same old I right until same old VIII came to mild only when the kid informed an NGO employee after a session on ‘good and dangerous contact’ that, that used to be what she experienced, Pinto said.

“The state of affairs is dangerous. Offences are dedicated over and over,” she said.

Director of training, Nagraj Honnekeri, said a chain of programmes for academics are being held with the assistance of Goa State AIDS Control Society, well being department and doctors.

In the main segment, the motherly contact is there, he said, including that 80% of academics are ladies.

Honnekeri said faculties face the issue of accommodating such periods of their timetable. The department, he said, is ready to paintings together to reach at a solution.


Some NGOs in need of to conduct periods for children don’t way faculties and the training department in a structured manner, he said.


To this, suggest Albertina Almeida said the department could shoulder duty in higher structuring these periods originally of the academic year itself as an alternative of at the fag end, to make sure offences come to mild as soon as imaginable.


Pinto, all the way through the dialogue organised via the Commission for Protection of Child Rights, said in many circumstances of child sexual abuse, youngsters don’t divulge heart's contents to folks but regularly in counsellors, academics and in NGO workers after they cling periods for children.


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