So when I read about all these rapes of young girls, some as young as five, I do not know what to think. In fact I cannot think clearly about it because it confuses and angers me greatly. I don’t know what those fathers must think or feel. There is no cure for that kind of pain even if these fathers were allowed to torture and kill the rapists.
But as part of a civilized society, we must find a way to protect our children. I don’t know if such cases are on the rise or people are no longer willing to keep such heinous acts under wraps for honor purposes but a pattern seems to be developing here and that has to be dealt with a great deal of urgency. Now as much as I enjoy seeing Congress and their minions getting squeezed, I don’t think that the police can protect each and every child out there. Much like the lone wolf terrorist cannot be stopped; these sick perverts who keep their proclivities hidden cannot be stopped. Law and order can only bring the criminals to justice but cannot prevent them from committing the act. Those of you who read our blog know that we feel very strongly about it. For the new readers we will try to give links to earlier blogs on the same topic.
I think that this problem is a social problem. Pedophiles are not your usual criminals or perverts. A guy getting drunk and raping a girl is one kind of rape. A guy who seeks victims and rapes then is a serial offender and thus a different kind of rapist. He is the one with psychological problems (not that the date rape guy is sane but we are talking semantics here). However, these guys who are going around raping children are criminally insane and thus need to be caught and removed from the society permanently.
So why is this social problem? It is because these diseased creatures do not and cannot exist in vacuum. They have a support system and often people in that support system choose to ignore their sickness. Moreover, these guys were not born this way. Most of them were abused themselves by people around them. Most pedophiles were abused children themselves. However, once created, these victim turned monsters need to be stopped. One of the rapists who raped and nearly killed that five year old girl (the doctors had to remove foreign objects from her insides – imagine that level of perversity) is married to a girl he had raped. Clearly his parent knew about it and colluded with others in the society to deal with that crime by marrying this guy to her like some medieval Islamic society. If those parent and others who knew about the rape had reported that or at least sought professional help may have saved this child (and her family) from going through hell. Now this guy will certainly get death or worse (killed by inmates) and they lose their son in a worse way.
If people know or hear of someone with a problem of this kind, if a wife knows about her husband who has this kind of proclivity or a parent who knows something about their son then it is their responsibility to God and society to deal with the problem by either reporting it to law or seek psychiatric help. That way, they will save future victims as well as their loved ones. Of course this is easier said than done but short of something like this, I do not know what to think.
We as a society are clearly moving away from the spiritual and towards the material and instant gratification. I gotta have it and have it now or I am special or the world owes me something for being born or I am a guy so submit to me kind of attitudes are becoming more and more prevalent in our society. Greed and shameless / false sense of superiority are turning women into objects and girls into liabilities. Until the Indian society accepts their foibles and start to work towards a solution, unless we treat women and girls with the same degree as we do our devis, unless we move closer to the Hindu tenets of life and away from selfish materialistic pursuits, we should prepare ourselves for more news of this kind.
Our posts on this and similar topics are as follows:
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