Rape of minors on the rise - says a small one column deep inside the paper
I came across this little bit of news buried deep inside the TOI (and could not find the link so pasting the entire story here). It depresed me.. not because the news is such but that kids today face a greater chance of losing their innocence so much earlier and we are just mentioning it in passing... The headline and the first line.. is so wrong...
New Delhi: Rape of minors is on the rise. There was a 16.5 per cent rise in number of such cases in 2003 as compared to 2002, and it went up by another 20.1 per cent last year, the Rajya Sabha was told on Wednesday. There were 2,535 reported cases of rape of minors in 2002, 2,949 in 2003 and 3,541 in 2004, minister of state for home Manikrao Gavit said in a reply.
Statistics show that Madhya Pradesh tops in the list with 710 cases registered during 2004. Maharashtra comes next with 491, 605 and 634 cases in 2002, 2003 and 2004, respectively. On the other end of the spectrum are Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Lakshadweep with zero incidence. Tripura, that had no cases in 2003, suddenly reported 28 rapes of minors last year.
Gavit said the crime under the IPC showed a mixed trend between ’02 and ’04. From 178,0330 cases in ’02, it came down to 17,16120 cases in ’03, marking a 3.6%decrease, but shot up to 18,32,015 cases last year. TNN
posted by Janaki @ 7:32 PM
3 Comments:
sorry for this but i gotta point out a sentence here which kinda got me thinking - '...not because the news is such but that kids today face a greater chance of losing their innocence so much earlier'.
What left me a little surprised was the 'so much earlier' part.
It kinda gives the idea that all of them would have ended up being raped anyway.
Or that loss of innocence is a given and rape prepones it and that is why it is so terrible.
no offence meant. peace
stop pasting and start posting :)
hi madhavan - once i posted it i realised what it sounded like and was just too lazy to go back and change it. No I most definitely do not mean that it is ok later in life. Just that one always imagines that children lead idyllic lives without a care and then we have news items that say this. thats all.. Your point about loss of innocence is inevitable is true but need not be by way of rape... reading the news these days is enough for loss of innocence,
Hey r ..here goes :)
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