Grooming is when someone builds an emotional connection with a child to gain their trust for the purposes of sexual abuse or exploitation. Children and young people can be groomed face-to-face or online, by a stranger or by someone they know. Groomers may be male or female and could be of any age.

Many children and young people don’t understand that they have been groomed or that what has happened to them is a form of abuse. They may tend to feel that what is developing between them and the perpetrator is a ‘relationship’.


To learn more on the issue and what you can do to help safeguard & protect our children, visit: http://aarambhindia.org - India's First Online Resource Portal Against Child Sexual Abuse.

This clip has been excerpted from 'Kahaani 2'. We encourage you to watch the whole film. While being an edge-of-the-seat thriller, it also features a child and her trusted adult dealing with sexual abuse that has been portrayed with rare sensitivity.