A 17-year-old teen girl from Pandikkad in Malappuram was sexually abused multiple times in the last4 years by multiple men.

A POSCO case was filed and been in care at Nirbhaya Shelter home. In 2017, a complaint was given by the girl alleging sexual abuse by people in the locality. Then again she was shifted to a Nirbhaya home and was allowed to go home only in 2020 when the lockdown was going to be announced. 

P.Geetha, a social activist, told the media that there are many cases like this, where POCSO victims were back to the family and undergo similar abuse again due to the authorities' failures. 

"The people who send back a victim to the same situation again are equally guilty as the culprits in the POCSO cases. If this was only once we could have thought it was a mistake, but when this happens repeatedly it cannot be taken lightly. Why are the authorities leaving the children back with their relatives?" she asked on Media One.