The report stressed on the need for an urgent reform of

Indian criminal justice system, right from the time police receive a complaint until trials were completed. Poorly trained police officers often refuse to register the complaints. Instead, they subject the victim to mistreatment and humiliation, it said, adding that in the absence of guidelines and training for sensitive medical treatment and examination of victims of child sexual abuse, it contribute to their trauma. Doctors had been using the "finger test" as apart of the examination of girl rape victims, even though forensic experts have said that it has no scientific value. "It is hard enough for a sexually abused child or their relatives to come forward and seek help but instead of handling cases with sensitivity Indian authorities often demean and re-traumatise them," Ganguly said. "The failure to implement needed police reforms to be more sensitive and supportive to victims has made police stations places to be dreaded," she said. She said that it was shocking that the very institutions that should protect vulnerable children were the place at risk of horrific child sexual abuse "State governments should immediately implement a more effective system to register and rigorously monitor government, private, and religious child care institutions," Ganguly said. The government should take immediate steps to address the lack of faith in government institutions that prevents many people from reporting child sexual abuse by holding to account those that fail to handle such cases in a prompt and sensitive manner, the rights body said.