Teenage German tourist raped on Indian train

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59. The situation there is DIRE and comparing their "figures" to anything is pointless.

It's like ignoring the fact that China executes something like two thousand people a year, simply because they don't report it.

This isn't about "color" and "brown people" but it IS about culture, and the culture of that society, as a consequence of a wide and widening gap between rich and poor, and a gender imbalance in the population that is significant, does play into this problem--and make no mistake, it is a major problem.

China is another country where they have a severe shortage of potential wives, and a rape problem--not a little one, either. Some rapes (like in India) aren't illegal over there-- in China, both same sex rape and marital rape don't "count"--get outta jail free on those...it's an issue.

And whoopee, they're finally closing this loophole--what sports!

China to End Loophole in Child Rape Law, Experts Say


For 16 years, children’s rights advocates have called on the Chinese government to do away with a law that allows men who have sex with girls under 14 years of age, the legal age of consent, to receive a more lenient punishment than those convicted of raping older girls or women if they can “prove” that the child was paid or otherwise compensated for sex.

The crime of “spending the night in a brothel with a young girl” provides an incentive for sexual predators to choose younger girls in order to evade the heaviest sentences, critics say. Men accused of raping a child could bribe or force the girl or her family to testify that she had been paid. The law also stigmatizes the girls by labeling them as prostitutes, activists say.

The Chinese Supreme Court has indicated to a leading proponent of changing the law, National People’s Congress deputy Sun Xiaomei, that it accepts the argument that the law, which has been on the books since 1997, is unfair and wrong. While no date has been set for the legal change, child rights activists and feminists are jubilant.

“It’s a really, really positive change,” said Zhang Rongli, a law professor at the China Women’s University. “And it’s an example of the government listening to public opinion. This law was very unpopular throughout society. Surveys showed that 98 or 99 percent of people opposed it. The government listened.”....The discrepancy in penalties depending on payment was also a problem, said Ms. Zhang. As was the fact that the law set no “lower limit” for age, applying to children from birth to 14. “It was awful,” she said.