Abstract

One of the cruelest things that could ever happen to a child is abuse. Children is being abused no longer a serious crime in the eyes of the public. There are varies types of abuse such as physical, sexual, emotional and neglect. All of them have a serious impact over the future generation. This research predominantly deals with physical abuse faced by children. The most important thing that influenced the researcher to take up this topic was a video on Face book which portrayed a boy child being terribly abused by his mother. And the only motive of the researcher is to stop the children being victim to these kinds of abuses and the societal must pay great attention to put an end to these crimes. In this doctrinal research by using secondary sources, the cause of child abuse, its impact over children, why is it caused in the first place and the provisions in relation with this crime has been chronologically demonstrated. The main reason why the child abuse is still wandering over the country is due to the inefficiency of the statutory commissions and the lack of intense punishments towards this kind of offences.

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