panaji while the protection of children from sexual offences pocso act 2012 calls for mandatory reporting of cases of child sexual abuse it also has provisions to penalize any person for making a false complainta number of cases of consensual relationship between teenagerswhere the boy is 18 years and the girl almost 18 years registered as rape come up before the goa childrens court only to end in acquittal with the girl and her family denying the entire incident in courtin such cases of love affairs between teenagers the parents initially file a complaint only to deny the incident later when it comes up in court blaming the police instead and alleging they were forced to file a complaint by this time the family has accepted the couple that has married and settled down and arent interested in pursuing the case anymorereferring to the sunil mahadev patil vs state of maharashtra case that highlights the sexual maturation of present day youth president of the states childrens court vandana tendulkar said there is need for more awarenessonce a case is registered it sets the entire machinery in motion burdening the police and court only to end up with the parents stating they were threatened by the police to file the complaint and were forced to sign on blank papers the impression created before the court is that police are catching hold of people and making them file cases she saidspeaking to goa police on the pocso act on monday tendulkar told them to inform parents before they lodge a complaint that they would have to depose in court later and caution them against giving a false reportshe was speaking at a training programme organized by district legal services authority north goa which saw sessions on national legal services authority childfriendly legal services to children and their protection scheme 2015 the juvenile justice act age ossification and medicolegal issues