Men prey on infant, young daughters in Punjab

[HRK]

@Windjammer its a request plz delete this thread its ..... just too ....

 

[xyxmt]

there is so much cleaning to be done in Sub continent, so much gund it just makes me sick reading about it everyday.

 

[yuba]

Hanging them in public will prevent hundreds of more lives.

To quick send them to prison for the rest of their lives where they will be targets and let other prisoners stick things in them

 

[Indrani]

We need to sell more booze, legalize drugs, and what the hell is culture? Modern people modern vichar.

 

[AUSTERLITZ]

Sometimes i feel like modern justice system is too lenient,some people deserve brutal medieval punishment in public to create terror in their minds about such disgusting acts.These scum should be drawn and quartered or impaled on stakes.

 

[my2cents]

Caution : Article contains disturbing details of sexual abuse.

A three-month old girl was recently brought to the Government Medical College and Rajindra Hospital in Patiala with vaginal bleeding. Her illiterate mother revealed reluctantly that her husband was an alcoholic and had tried to push a toothbrush into the daughter’s vagina, just half-an-inch in size.

After bristles of the toothbrush were removed, the doctor asked the mother to lodge a police complaint to save her daughter from such assaults in the future. She left the hospital refusing even medication for the child.

A nine-month-old girl was brought to the hospital with a carrot protruding out of her vagina. The victim’s father was a drug-addict. Her mother too refused to lodge a complaint saying the child fell on the carrot.



A five-year-old girl came with a tear in her vulva. The mother said her husband did it under “influence of alcohol”. Though she was able to save the child when the father was trying to penetrate her, she was beaten and thrown out of the house for the entire night.

“I cannot lodge a complaint as there is another young girl child at home and the father is the only bread-winner.”

The land of missing daughters, Punjab now has tales of horror from little girls not killed in the womb. Like foeticide, the perpetrator of sexual abuse too is lurking in their homes.

Though the growing menace of drug and alcohol addiction became the main poll issue during the recent parliamentary elections in the state, among those silently bearing its brunt are daughters -- even infants and toddlers -- who are coming to hospitals with complaints of repeated urinary tract infections, frequent vaginal discharge, bed-wetting at night and swelling in private parts.

The case diaries of Dr Harshindar Kaur, assistant professor at the de par tment of paediatrics at Rajindra hospital, have since October seen a surge in cases of incest (sexual abuse by a relative).

A child and woman rights activist, who also appears on a FM helpline programme, Kaur has been dealing with cases of incest. But what alarmed her was the abuser was no more just the stepfather or a relative but even biological fathers, mostly drug or alcohol addicts.

Narrating two recent cases, she said, “A 13-year-old girl came with her mother to seek treatment for repeated urinary tract infections after being raped by her drug-addict stepfather.

"A school principal called me up seeking help for a Class-8 student whose stepfather was refusing to pay the school fee till she came to his bed at night. But to my horror, the abusers are now also their own biological fathers.

"And in almost all such cases that have come to me, the father is either a drug addict or an alcoholic or both,” she says.

Inside the Rajindra hospital, the conditions are equally appalling. There is no enclosure in the OPD room for children. The doctor examines the private parts of girl children on a cot, in the presence of a male attendant while men accompanying other patients look on.

NGOs working on child rights say there is a direct link between child sex abuse and problem of drug addiction or alcoholism in parents.

“We deal with sexually abused children and have come across several cases where the father is the abuser. Parents with drinking or drug abuse problems are a high-risk factor for child sex abuse,” says Bharti Ali from HAQ, centre for child rights.

Dr Bhavneet Bharti of the department of paediatrics at the PGI, Chandigarh, says drug abuse and alcoholism are closely linked to sexual offences as the person loses inhibition.

“Under their influence, a person does not know what he is doing. We had a case of a teenager who turned first-time sexual offender under the influence of liquor served to him by his friends.

But sexual abuse cases come occasionally to hospitals as families prefer to be silent on them,” she says.

Though the cases coming to government hospitals are mostly from lower income strata, Dr Harshindar says incest is rampant in all sections of society. “The mother is part of the conspiracy of silence.

Such is the social stigma attached to the abuse that mothers bury it till the physical or emotional symptoms become telling. Even doctors do not probe this angle if a small girl comes with obvious symptoms of sexual abuse.

While an infant runs a risk to her life in case she develops septicemia (severe infection in her private parts), young girls can suffer other physical complications, such as fibrosis, making them unable to bear children.

The psychological implications are equally damaging. It can result in extreme sexual behaviours -- they can either become too sexually active or fear even a touch -- or they grow into adults incapable of having normal sexual relations. The trauma lasts a lifetime,” adds Dr Harshindar.

The Punjab Child Rights Commission (PCRC) says it can do little in absence of complaints. “The problem of drug and liquor abuse is on the rise in Punjab. There are bound to be social implications. But there is a social stigma attached to sexual abuse.

When the father is an abuser, it becomes a bigger taboo. They also fear further victimisation by the police. Our commission can refer the matter to the police only when we get a complaint. We cannot intrude into the private space of families unwilling to do so,” says PCRC chairman Swaran Salaria.

Men prey on infant, young daughters in Punjab - Hindustan Times

We should change the law to prosecute women who bring the girls in such condition because they have put their children at risk. The girls should be put in a child care center.

 

[Koovie]

We need to sell more booze, legalize drugs, and what the hell is culture? Modern people modern vichar.

BS... alcohol does not make people put things into their daughters vagina`s. Backwardness, lack of education etc do.

Dont tell me that alcohol is behind all the child and women abusers of this country.

 

[janon]

We should change the law to prosecute women who bring the girls in such condition because they have put their children at risk. The girls should be put in a child care center.

The result would be that women would no longer bring abused children to hospitals.

 

[yuba]

BS... alcohol does not make people put things into their daughters vagina`s. Backwardness, lack of education etc do.

Dont tell me that alcohol is behind all the child and women abusers of this country.

Its not anything to do with education or backwardness. These types of people have a sick mind they find kids sexually attractive and no matter what help they given they will not change.

 

[janon]

These animals should be hanged to death for what they did.

Frankly, being hung to death sounds like a merciful punishment for such a crime.

 

[Pakistani shaheens]

Frankly, being hung to death sounds like a merciful punishment for such a crime.

Yes u r so right my friend!
They should be slaughtered, then their body pieces should be cut into trillion pieces and then it should be fed to animals.

 

[Indrani]

BS... alcohol does not make people put things into their daughters vagina`s. Backwardness, lack of education etc do.

Dont tell me that alcohol is behind all the child and women abusers of this country.

Right. Traditionally India which did not have English education and which was 95% illiterate in 1947 was putting things in their daughter's vagina. All Indian women barring the 5% educated from 1947 have grown up with a toothbrush and carrot in their vaginas.

 

[Koovie]

Right. Traditionally India which did not have English education and which was 95% illiterate in 1947 was putting things in their daughter's vagina. All Indian women barring the 5% educated from 1947 have grown up with a toothbrush and carrot in their vaginas.

Where did I talk about tradition?

Go and come back with some basic comprehension skills.

And obviously the number of reported cases was immensely lower than in modern days with better policing, media, communication, justice system etc

 

[liall]

Disgusting...Alcohol + drug addicts should be banned or at least alcoholics + drug addicts should be banned from getting married!

alcohol + drugs dont make you an animal who tear up vaginas f their 9 months old daughter. they are animal with or without the drugs

 

[Dubious]

alcohol + drugs dont make you an animal who tear up vaginas f their 9 months old daughter. they are animal with or without the drugs

both alcohol and drugs do make you hallucinate or even loose control! The guys did it in such a state not when sober....there is no excuse for retarded brains!