Child abuse of street children is indeed widespread in western Uttar Pradeshincluding lock city of Aligarh. These street children mostly belonging to Bihar and Bengal who generally stay at railway platform, bus stand, hospital premises and road sides are sexually harassed in Aligarh by the powerful person of these area and miscreants.
This type of sex trade is being carried out by the street children either at the instance of their poor parents who also wonder here and there to earn the means of their livelihood or by the organized gang for earning money. As a result the most of such street children who are innocent, minor girls suffer from chronic sexual diseases, like HIV and like syphilis, gonorrhea, pelvic infection, genital warts etc.
In Aligarh 42 percent street children living in the slums and 58 percent on street. Not only this 36 percent street children found chronic sexual disease and HIV. 46 percent female street children are found with chronic sex disease. In bad company these children become addicted to drinking, consuming opium and drug and smoking.
To meet the expenses of this addiction these children come in the sex trade. These children even their mothers are also found working as a sex workers to earn their livelihood. A survey by Ministry for Women and Child Development and LATA a NGO reveals that one out of every two street children in lock city of Aligarh and brass city Moradabad faces sexual abuse.