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Rapedemic!!!!!!

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  1. Balajee

    Balajee IL Hall of Fame

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    Keep your minor children indoors, both boys and girls for thy are not safe outside four walls. There seems to be a rape epidemic on in the country.


    Minors seem to have become specific objects of lust. Babies as old as eight months are being targeted.,


    On second thoughts, are they safe even within four walls? Quite a few of the rapist were kin. Who had the trust of the victims.


    While rapes have been occurring for millennia, the rape of a teenage girl in Unnao UP allegedly by a ruling party MLA and the rape and murder of little Asifa within a temple in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir,not only seem to have set off a series of copycat child rapes, but triggered a game of brownie points among the political class.


    What is common between the two rapes i9s the ruling esatablishment either rema9ined indifferent or targeted the victims. In Unnao case the girl and her father were arrested instead of the man whom they accused of rape. The father died in custody. And until the Allahabadf high court ordered the arrest of the MLA no action was taken. Even after that the state government passed the buck to the central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) which tookl the accused into custody for interrogation.


    The Asifa case is even more shameful and gruesome. The girl was raped among others by policemen after being drugged and kidnapped. Shamefully enough members of BJP including tweo ministers stood by the accused and the local bar association took out protest marches against their arrest!Even the lawyer representing the victim’s family was threatened by her professional colleagues.


    While both casea are under tri9al, they were followed by a series of rapes of minors (in at least one case that of a boy) including infants. The protests spread like wildfire across globe as Prie Minister Modi was greeted during his visit to London by people expressing their anger over the incidents.


    Even the president of International Monetary Fund advised him to pay more attention to the issue of women and children’s safety. I think it is the first time that a foreign dignitary commented on such happenings in India, a shameful first indeed.


    As a face saver, the government brought in a hurried ordinance amending the law to provide death penalty for those who rape minors bnelow 12 and 20 years to life if the victims were above 12.


    The cure alas is worse than the disease. The powers-that-be, it seems just wanted to be seen doing something on the issue instesd of seriously taking steps to curb such incidents. The new measures are likely to endanger the life of the victims than protect them.



    Putting a rapist’s neck in a noose is perfectly fine if the rape is followed by murder. But if you make the perpetrator’s execution mandatory for rape the victim will certainly be killed because a live victim who can point an accusing finger at the rapist is the most damning piece of evidence against him.


    Of course monsters are preying on babies who are too young to speak but girls around 19 can certainly open their mouths and accuse the rapist endangering his life.Iin such a situation do you think the rapist will leave the girl alive?.

    The presidential ordinance increasing the quantum of punishment clearly shows such points were not taken into account. It was just an indecently hurried attempts to show the world that the rulers care for the plight of the victims.


    Any law on rape, whether of minors or adults, must ensure fast track trials for the crime bu in seventy plus years of independence, no government has ensured this. As a result it may tak decades foie a victim to get justice. Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarti told a TV channel that a minor rape victim in Arunachal Pradesh, for instance will have to wait on an average for over 70 years before she gets justice. In Gujarat it is slightly better. She doesn’t have to wait until she becomes a great grandma before the trial is finally decided. She will be just a grandma by the time the case finally closes. She will face cou4rts for about only 50 years. Some consolation isn’t it?


    This aspect has not been addressed by lawmakers. So law in India is not an ass, it remains a snail.


    Above all, the question is are we teaching kids at both home and school to respect women and not treat them as mere objects? We can teach them only by setting an example;e, by becoming role models ourselves. That is where everything has to begin. The law comes only later.
     
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    Well said.....what is required is not mere death sentences....but fast track trials...criminals not
    allowed to escape their gruesome crimes...and justice done. Here its just the opposite in many
    cases where it seems to be a crime to even report rape cases. Cannot imagine such beasts
    who even target few months old babies. :fearscream:
     
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    A very timely write up on the most horrific crimes against the girl child, even infants! Stricter laws are definitely required and the urgency to let it be known to all , is there. However, as u rightly pointed out, unless trials are quick and rate of conviction is 100%, it will not serve the purpose at all. More importantly, the safety of the victims is paramount. It is difficult to understand the reasons for such sudden increases in incidences. With political parties canvassing for elections, only talking of the mistakes of the opposite parties and not what they stand for, the citizens are finally being left with a sense of foreboding of the future of this great country!
     
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    Very well said, Balajee. My only problem is what version to believe and whom to believe and to get down to basics whether to believe. Each day one gets to read various versions of the same story. It's mentally exhausting to even think of any of these things, because honestly I don't think anything is going to change. We, as a country, have already gone to the dogs.
     
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    I was so shaken up after reading about the kathua case . What has humanity come to if babies and kids are not spared ? I saw some vidoes where men in their motor bikes who were pro rapist were rallying to support them . How do these criminals of the worst kind get supporters ? The kashmiri lady advocate who is fighting for the victim is receiving death threats and she is being criticized by her own kith and kin because she is fighting for a Muslim . I don’t want to make this a bjp/ congress issue because the problem is lies much deeper than that . Today bjp, tomorrow congress , then some again some ruling party but atrocities like this will continue to happen because of a) social conditioning b) no laws. Given the short attention span of public and being constantly bombarded with the latest masala news , this incident too shall be lost and forgotten and the culprits will walk away scot free .

    I wonder why such atrocities never happen in other developing countries or Arab countries which are so patriarchal . It’s not like women are treated much better there but the law is so unforgiving that people will have to think twice before commiting such heinous crimes .
     
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    @Balajee very valid and very relevant alternative thought process. Apart from the one point you have touched upon that this will endanger the life of the victim, there is yet another complication :

    That is ,simply because capital punishment is there, the judicial process itself will take a lot of time. See the cases ending in capital punishment in every state ; it takes decades for the judicial process to culminate in capital punishment.

    The same will be the case in rape instances too.
     
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    Quite frankly it is simply not possible to remove the occurance of rapes in our country for the simple fact that culturally too much importance is accorded to a woman's chastity or "virtue", emphasizing gender-based roles in society and how "good women" are supposed to behave.

    The culture influences its people to associate a family's respect and honour with a woman's modesty / virginity/ chastity. So the same thing then becomes a weapon or a tool to shame a person, family, tribe or community.

    People also associate a woman's moral standard with how a woman dresses, behaves and interacts with men. According to this mindset, if she is independent, has male friends and dresses attractively or in western clothes, she must be the "loose woman" type with whom such men feel they can misbehave.

    Also the concept of sexual relationships is traditionally expected to be in the confines of marriage. With more than a million women missing in India due to sex selection, there are far too many frustrated men with little to no sexual outlet leading to sexual depravity.

    Each of these factors has varying degrees of contribution to the problem. To fix these we need to change the mindset which in turn means changing some aspects of Indian culture which is very hard when your problem set is 1 B strong.

    The only way to survive is to have stronger laws that would scare & dissuade potential rapists. Culture change is unlikely to happen and infact culture clash is more likely to happen with greater frequency when the gap between the rich and poor, educated and uneducated increase.
     
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    I wonder if there is really a rape epidemic or people are now bringing this news in open since it is a raging issue now and also apt for political blame games.

    How do we get such news everyday all of a sudden?Has the libido of our country's men suddenly increased? Or they are doing this for political advantage? Something doesn't seem to add up.
     
  9. silentlistener

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    You are right !

    For example, now people call India as the diabetic capital of the world. So many huge number of diabetic cases are reported every year. It does not mean that the diabetes incidence has increased year by year. It has been there in the past too; it was going undiagnosed and people were dying at young age is due to complications . But, now because of increased Diagnostic facility , more and more number of cases of diabetes are diagnosed in the beginning itself. That is why there is an artificial increase in the incidence of diabetes , as projected.

    Similar to that, it apparently looks as if the incidence and frequency of rape has increased in the past few years. The reality is different.

    The heinous 6th December 2012 Delhi bus gang-rape case lead to a public outcry. Subsequent to that, there is an increased awareness among the Indian public to report every case of sexual violence to the authorities.

    Just the process of reporting has become increased not the real incidence of rape.
     
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  10. Raffaello

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    Really pathetic to see news daily or read any post that goes with rape of minor, sexual abuse why all of a sudden I mean in last few years, if you can't spare a child unfit to be Even an animal ..
    Female Foeticide is a crime, even as a baby female is under threat once she comes to see the world you throw her in darkness and call names as rape, assault, if you treat women in such a way a day would come when only you monsters will survive and she would leave the universe permanently ....
    Women is a blessing not just because I am One I state it, men can make all magic do everything, you can't create human... After God she is blessed soul to make being ... If she perishes human race is no more.. She is a multifaceted icon of this society . Don't let her fall and sober.... Stop the shame, rape is a big word for my little girl to understand.. Don't do this .. She is your daughter save her ....
     
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