DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2019.v07i04.002

Pages: 263-270

Research in recent era is quite intrigued in the matter of child abuse and child neglect. Child sexual abuse generates deep concern worldwide as a social phenomenon and pressing public health issue. Young victims of childhood sexual abuse are often unable to express as to what they are experiencing and comprehend to seek out help. According to latest Government figures in India, a child is sexually abused every 15 minutes (BBC, 2017). A study was conducted by India’s Ministry of Women and Child Development (2007) [1], where 53 % of children surveyed said that they have been subjected to some form of sexual abuse. Clinical case reports advocates that the abused and neglected ones are more likely to experience cognitive, emotional and behavioral problem such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, delinquency, difficulty in school and early sexual activity. Hence, this paper is an attempt to assess the attitude towards prevalence of child sexual abuse in a randomly assigned representative sample of 30 young male and female undergraduate college students (aged: 18-22 years) of Guwahati, Digholipukhuri area of Kamrup (Metro) District of Assam. Also this paper scrutinizes the various obstructive outcomes due to maltreatment in them.