[Nine months baby assaulted by an intoxicated 14 year old](https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/lucknow/gorakhpur-14-year-old-juvenile-apprehended-kidnap-assault-infant-relative-10750465/) - Every child needs a [[Ring of Safety|ring of safety]] which somehow was missing for the nine month old in this case. - To view the 14 year old in this case as a victim might appear problematic. He is the one who attacked the nine month old. That brutality is horrendous, there is no question on that. But what made that boy do this unspeakable violence is a question worth pursuing. Some reports indicated that he watched porn and that prompted the act. - Giving a child intoxicants an offence under S 77 of the [[Juvenile Justice Care and Protection Act, 2015]] (S77. Penalty for giving intoxicating liquor or narcotic drug or psychotropic substance to a child). The section reads: > Whoever gives, or causes to be given, to any child any intoxicating liquor or any narcotic drug or tobacco products or psychotropic substance, except on the order of a duly qualified medical practitioner, shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years and shall also be liable to a fine which may extend up to one lakh rupees. > Being an offence punishable with seven years, it is a grave offence. - Showing pornographic material amounts to an offence under [[Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012]], as it is a sexual harassment under Section 11. - Also, as per [[S 295 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita]], 2023, circulating obscene object to a child is an offence. - Ring of safety might have been missing for the 14 year old also. ---