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NCPA DATA

Childinfo is a data collection project funded by UNICEF with the primary aims of collecting data on child abuse and maintaining a data-base for the purpose of providing any person or institution working with children or in related child care work with the relevant information.

The two main objectives of Child Info project are;

[1] Collection and preparation of data related to child abuse in Sri Lanka.

[2] Maintaining and updating the Child Info database.

2004 Data

2005 Data

Year 2003 NCPA Data according to age of the victim

Type of Abuse	Age Group
	0-1	1-3	3-6	6-10	10-14	14-16	16-18
Child Labour			1	6	15
Corporal Punishment		2	3	1	10	1	1
Emotional Abuse				4	4	1	6
Fatal Abuse	1						2
Kidnapping		1	1	4	3	11	7
Neglect	3	6	6	21	14	8	4
Physical Abuse		3	5	12	13	7	11
Sexual Abuse		3	5	35	75	49	38
Total	4	15	21	83	134	77	69

Year 2003 NCPA Data According to the Sex of the victim

Type of Abuse	Male	Female

Child Labour	9	13
Corporal Punishment	10	8
Emotional Abuse	7	8
Fatal Abuse	2	1
Kidnapping	2	25
Neglect	26	36
Physical Abuse	29	22
Sexual Abuse	41	164
Total	126	277

Child Abuse Cases Reported to NCPA in 2003

Abuse Type			No of Cases
1. Sexual Abuse				205
Grave (Incest) by
	Father		24
	Brother
	Grand Father		4
	Uncle		10
	Other
		Sub Total	38
Grave (Outsider) by
	Teacher		16
	Foriegner
	Relatives		7
	Neighbor		19
	Stranger		14
	Other		84
		Sub Total	140
Molestation (Incest) by
	Father		2
	Brother
	Grand Father		1
	Uncle
	Other
		Sub Total	3
Molestation (Outsider) by
	Teacher		5
	Foriegner
	Relatives
	Neighbor		5
	Stranger		1
	Other		10
		Sub Total	21
Commercial Sexual Exploitaton
By	Locals		3
	Foreigners
		Sub Total	3
2. Physical Abuse				51
By	Parents		9
	Teacher		14
	Relatives		3
	Master/Mistress		1
	Non Related Person		1
	Stranger
	Other		23

3. Corporal Punishment				18
By	Parents		1
	Teacher		14
	Relatives
	Master/Mistress
	Non Related Person
	Stranger
	Other		3



4. Neglect of Children				62
	Educational Neglect		21
	Lack of Protection & Care		35
	Nutritional Neglect		5
	Medical Neglect		1
	Other

5. Emotional Abuse				15
	In School		8
	Other		7

6. Kidnapping				27
	Kidnapping & Physical Abuse		2
	Kidnapping & Murder
	Kidnapping for Marriage		3
	Kidnapping & Sexual abuse		5
	Kidnapping & Ransom
	Kidnap by LTTE
	Other		17

7. Child Labour (Below 14)				22
	Child Labour		19
	Child Labour & Sexual Abuse		1
	Child Labour & Physical Abuse		2
	Child Labour & Corporal Punishment

8. Fatal Abuse				3
	Fatal Abuse		3

Total				403

Reported Child Abuse Cases to NCPA 2003

Type of abuse	Province									Total
	Western	Central	Southern	Northern	Eastern	North Western	North Central	Uva	Sabara- gamuwa
Child Labour	8	2	3	0	0	4	0	3	2	22
Corporal Punishment	3	1	6	0	1	2	4	1	0	18
Emotinal Abuse	3	2	3	0	0	1	0	4	2	15
Kiddnap	4	6	5	1	0	3	5	2	1	27
Neglect	13	11	12	0	0	3	8	11	4	62
Physical Abuse	14	2	7	3	3	5	5	7	5	51
Sexual	31	33	51	4	6	16	26	16	22	205
Fatal Abuse	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	3
Total	77	57	87	8	10	35	48	45	36	403