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The Hindu
17-05-2025
- The Hindu
Yemeni national punished for viewing and storing child sexual exploitation and abuse material on his mobile phone
A 60-year-old Yemeni chef employed in Thiruvananthapuram was sentenced to undergo imprisonment till the rising of the court and fined ₹5,000 for viewing and storing child sexual exploitation and abuse material (CSEAM) on his mobile phone. Abdullah Ali Abdo Al Hadad, a Yemeni national residing at Eenchakkal, Thiruvananthapuram, was found guilty by the Fast Track Special Court (POCSO), Thiruvananthapuram. Failure to remit the fine would attract simple imprisonment for a further period of one month, the order issued by Rekha R., Special Judge, said. Special Public Prosecutor Vijay Mohan R.S. appeared for the prosecution. Abdullah was punished under Section 67 B(b) of the Information Technology Act which deals with offences related to the creation, propagation, or use of child pornography, and Section 15(1) (iii) of the Protection of Children Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, which deals with offences related to the storage or possession of pornographic materials involving children. He was found by the Cyber Cell to have watched such banned material on his mobile phone in December 2020. A subsequent inspection of his mobile phone revealed the presence of CSEAM. The court decided that imprisonment till rising of the court and fine would serve the cause of justice in this case considering the age of the accused and the absence of criminal antecedents. The court also ordered that the mobile phone be confiscated and the SIM card destroyed after deleting CSEAM and other obscene material with the assistance of the Forensic Science Lab. In such cases, even if an accused in charged, conviction is rare as it is very difficult to prove the age of the children in question. In this case, the Prosecution was able to prove that the girls in videos were minors.
The Hindu
02-05-2025
- The Hindu
Court sentences one man to 47 years' RI for raping differently abled, minor girl
The Thiruvananthapuram Fast Track Special Court, which deals with child abuse cases, on Friday sentenced a 41-year-old man to 47 years of rigorous imprisonment for sexually assaulting his differently abled relative, a 16-year-old girl. Special Judge Rekha R., who found the accused Rajeev guilty of the crime, also imposed a fine of ₹25,000, the default of which would lead to eight months' additional imprisonment. According to the prosecution led by Special Public Prosecutor Vijay Mohan R.S., the incident occurred on September 25, 2020, under the Nedumangad police station limits. Around 11:45 a.m. when the survivor was alone at home, the accused committed the heinous crime. The girl's elder sister, who had gone outside, returned and witnessed the assault. She grabbed a stick lying nearby, attacked Rajeev and chased him away. The survivor had sustained serious injuries in the attack. Hearing the screams of the two girls, their neighbours rushed in and alerted the police. During further investigation, it was revealed that Rajeev had dragged the girl from her room to the kitchen, beat her and then assaulted her. He also confessed to sexually abusing the girl on two previous occasions, which had not come to light earlier because he had threatened her to remain silent. The court strongly stated that the accused, who cruelly assaulted a child, suffering from Down Syndrome, deserves no mercy. The prosecution examined 31 witnesses and presented 31 exhibits and three material objects.
