THE report that a 14-year old school girl was not only physically violated by two men in a village in Faridpur district, but the whole savage act was recorded on mobile phone and the video footage uploaded on the Internet, is mind boggling, to say the least.
Such beastly acts put society at large to shame. The very fact that the perpetrators not only committed a heinous crime but had also the audacity of publicising it is an indicator of the sense of insecurity and humiliation that young girls are subjected to by social desperados. The police reportedly did not register the case and the victim's family had to take recourse to Women and Children Repression Court. If the allegation is true, then one might really begin to comprehend another dimension to the extent of helplessness of young girls. It seems the seminars and meetings to uphold the rights of women are not having the desired effect on all concerned. They are burnt with acid or raped but nobody comes to their rescue.
The trauma associated with such attacks is often too great to be absorbed by a young girl. However, we do not yet have the specialised treatment facilities needed to help such victims overcome the shock and awe.
The poor parents of the rape victim are doing as much as they can to seek justice. They have threatened, out of sheer desperation, to commit suicide if the culprits go unpunished. One should not fail to understand what they have been through and it is the duty of the law enforcers to catch the culprits, whoever they may be, and bring them to justice.
The court has, for understandable reasons, clamped a ban on sale of the CD and ordered arrest of the culprits. But a whole chain of people are involved in it and they must all be brought to justice. This is an aspect of such cases which needs to be dealt with to have a deterrent effect on the rogues.
Bestiality becomes all the more repulsive when it is condoned in any society. The point is relevant in our context as ghoulish crimes against women are often committed with impunity. The Faridpur rapists must be brought to justice and punished according to the law.