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ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Children are the one of the precious gift given to mankind they are the future of the nation. Child molestation is like a virus - it attacks the host organism and alters it physically. Children who survive abuse to adulthood in turn are more likely to abuse their own children who, if they survive, grow up more likely to abuse their own children. OBJECTIVES To assess the knowledge of junior high school children regarding child molestation. To assess the effectiveness of awareness programme on knowledge regarding child molestation among junior high school children by comparing pre-test and post test knowledge score. To determine the association between mean pre-test knowledge score of junior high school and selected socio- demographic variables regarding child molestation. METHOD A quantitative research done with pre experimental research design among 72 participants of J.M Junior high school in Moradabad, samples was selected by simple random sampling. Self structured questionnaire were used to collect the data. RESULT Findings reveal that the among 72 respondents, majority were females 44(61.1%), in age the most were belongs to 13 years 28(38.8%), of samples 30(41.7%) were studying in 8th standard, 39(54.2%) were belongs to Hindu religion, 37(51.4%) were live with joint family, in area of residence 39(54.2%) were live in urban area, among them most of them 31(43.1%) were got information mass media and in related education of parents 45(62.5%) were studied intermediate and above. Pre-test revealed that junior high school children were having low level of knowledge with a mean score of 7.40 out of 25. After awareness programme post test score increased to 18.51, which shows the effectiveness of awareness programme. It has been found that variables like age, gender, class, religion, type of family, area of residence, source if information and education of parents shows a significant no association with pre-test knowledge level. INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSION As the mean post test score is significantly higher than that of the pre-test it is evident that the knowledge junior high school children was improved after the awareness programme. The tool developed can be used to identify individuals in need of awareness programme as well as to assess the effectiveness of child molestation.