- Lack of empirical data on child pornography is posing difficulties for the funding, training, law enforcement and understanding of how to conduct investigations into such cases.
- Besides, only those crimes registered under the IPC or other criminal Acts are recorded.
- Corporal punishment, use of children for creation of pornography, exposure etc are not reflected in the data collected by The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) as they are not offences under IPC.
- Probe agencies are important so as to understand the changing profile of the crime. In several cases, the officers are unaware of use of technology and forensic investigation techniques.
- Police should be better trained and as technology has completely changed the way sexual offences against children are committed.
- India, which is a signatory to various declarations on the rights of children to protection, security and dignity, has also recently accepted the two Optional Protocols to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, addressing the involvement of children in armed conflicts, sale of children, child pornography and prostitution.
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/lack-of-data-stalls-pornography-probes/article6289361.ece