These savages don’t give a damn. They know that our laws are so lax that you can rape a 4 year old and you can get away with it and, in any case, there will be another rape tomorrow and this will become another cold statistic.
Unless there is a fast track court for handling cases of brutality to minors (as a start) and the death penalty is a given option, nothing is going to change.
What happened to a four year old in Delhi’s Keshav Puram is beyond being a matter of shame. These spurts of rage that we display and the 24 hour screaming indignation mean nothing. It is all hypocrisy, because we have a system which allows for it.
She is 4-year-old, dammit! What sort of human being can find this baby sexually attractive? And if he is such a monster, should he be allowed to roam freely in society?
The Indian tolerance for these heinous attacks on children has to change.
We have a situation where even some police personnel are accused of rape. We have panchayats who recommend it as punishment. The fact is that we have endured such beasts as neighbours for too long.
Bring out a new anti-rape act, parliamentarians, and earn your keep. Start listing paedophilia as a special crime and cut out this farcical claim that it is not rampant. Even if one child is attacked in such a manner, it is an attack on every child in the country.
Even the media expresses horror for a couple of hours and then ignores the issue. However, the fact is that we live in peril and we have to understand that monsters like this rapist exist not in some netherworld but as neighbours, relatives, and as those mamas and chachas and dirty old uncles. We have to realize that our children are vulnerable.
Wake up India; we make righteous mewling sounds about Valentine’s Day and boys and girls in a nightclub, but this leaves us unmoved. Shame on us and the system.
