Sexual Violence Against School Children inTripura and its Impact

Violence against children is a worldwide problem. In every region of the world, children are subjected to be the victim of violence, most often by the individuals who are charged with their safety and wellbeing. Sexual violence against children is one of the fatal forms of violence, which adversely affect every aspect of child's mental health. Tripura is a small state of north east India where, like other areas of the world, both male and female children experience sexual violence. Reporting of sexual violence is very poor because of question of confidentiality and social stigma. Present study attempts to reveal the facts related with incidence of sexual violence, nature of sexual violence and perpetrators of this violence with 80 school students of West Tripura district, 40 from rural areas and 40 from urban areas. So many facts are revealed by confidential interview. The academic performance of the children who experienced sexual violence was found poor as compared to children who did not experienced the same. On the other hand, score of Beck Depression Inventory and Maslow's security insecurity Inventory also revealed that abused children have a greater level of depression and insecurity feeling than the children who did not experience the same.