A local court in Pathankot has convicted six persons in the rape-murder of an eight years old child in Kathua last year. This conviction has come even as a spate of rape and murders of minors have made headlines from Uttar Pradesh to Madhya Pradesh. TOI’s Jiby Kattakayam and Renuka Bisht discuss the takeaways of the Kathua case for the larger process of punishing and discouraging sex crimes in India. The question we are trying to answer is, what will it really take to keep our future generations safe?