Child Abuse

Child Abuse in United Kingdom

Definition of Child Abuse

In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Child Abuse : Molestation of children by parents or others (See battered child). If the molestation is of a sexual nature, the offender may be guilty of *indecent assault or *gross indecency with children (See also paedophile). It is an offence to take or allow the taking of indecent photographs of a child under the age of 16, to distribute or show such photographs, to advertise that one intends to distribute or show them, or simply to possess them without legitimate reason. Photographs on the Internet and computers have been held by the courts to fall within this legislation.

See also obscene publications.

In an old case ((1875), L. R. 2 C. C. R. 154), a prisoner unlawfully took an unmarried girl, being under the age of sixteen years, out of the possession and against the will of her father or mother, contrary to the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, s. 55. Held, that it was no defence that the prisoner bona fide and reasonably believed the girl was over sixteen.


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