Teenage German tourist raped on Indian train

[MADem]

75. Have a look at the forty five degree angle on the graph. And these additional cites which are

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In a country where tradition still holds sway, there's an explosion in reporting. Even with the explosion, I would wager that MOST rapes--even more than the second link suggests-- are not reported, and that "one percent" is an OPTIMISTIC figure, even after that forty five degree upsweep. I would also wager that, owing to the culture, rapes in India are more likely to be violent attacks as opposed to situations where an impaired person is unable to give consent, or even unaware of the crime being committed, owing to being drunk or under the influence of drugs, which is often the situation in USA. And forget even trying to codify "marital rape." It's not a crime in India, so knock that off your statistics entirely.


More here as well--listen to this podcast, and tell me that this kind of reporting wouldn't get a furious reaction here in America.

And even more here--and I suspect this figure is optimistic (never mind this article is put forth under "relationships" and not "crime" where it belongs): Only 1 out of 10 Women Report Rape

....In fact, a close friend of the 22-year-old techie, who had alerted his friends and the Madhapur cops about the girl's abduction, while talking to us, said, "Nothing happened to her. Please understand that she will be 'ruined' if people start talking about this incident".

"That's exactly how a rape survivor and her family feels — 'ruined'," says Asma Manowar, programme co-ordinator of Shaheen Resource Centre for Women. "We deal with many such cases of rape. When these women come to us, we try to counsel them, but they are too reluctant to report the crime. I would say, with great difficulty, we manage to convince only two out of 10 maybe, to report the incident and bring their culprits to book. The reasons are very obvious — it's the way our society treats a rape survivor. In some cases, even if the woman is ready to report the crime, that too after much conviction, the family is not willing. Marriage is another big reason for young girls to not report sexual assault. They feel that once the crime is reported, they will never be married. But they aren't wrong altogether. Our society does treat rape survivors very differently. They are discriminated against." Apart from societal pressures, the 'I am damaged' kind of thought that most rape survivors attached to themselves, also plays a bigger role in dissuading them from speaking about sexual assault, says psychiatrist Dr Savita Date Menon. "Figures of women reporting rape in India is low, because we have a negative way of looking at a victim. Though intelligently and cognitively, we understand that it's not the woman's fault, we are yet to learn how a rape victim should be treated. Till we learn that, the figures will continue to remain low despite education, awareness campaigns and laws to deal with such crimes."

Understanding the psyche of the survivor is also of utmost importance, if women are to be encouraged to report crimes of sexual nature. "The victim is not only shocked and traumatised, but as a society we also force her to think how people will look at her from thereon. That is when she develops the 'I am a damaged person' kind of syndrome, and thus, she is not only forced to relive the incident again and again, but also question herself — Why me? I must have invited undue attention, I have to feel ashamed about being raped, etc. This has to stop before we encourage women to report rape," explains Dr Menon......

If you're not disgusted yet, read this and ask yourself honestly if this kind of shit would be anything but The Topic Du Jour for weeks and months on every cable news outlet in USA if this kind of crap went on here. And this family would not have to wait for justice. A salient statistic from this brutal story:

“The whole thing is so traumatic and it takes so long that people feel that it’s better to keep quiet and forget all about it and carry on with life,” said Enakshi Ganguly Thukral, co-director of the HAQ Centre for Child Rights in New Delhi, an advocacy group for young victims of sexual abuse that helps train law enforcement and court officers. “There is no guarantee of justice at the end of the day.”

No Interest

Rajat Mitra, a psychologist and director of a trauma counseling center in New Delhi, said sexual predators know it. He interviewed about 200 men charged with or convicted of sex crimes between 2000 and 2005. He said the men were consistent: They didn’t think anyone was interested in solving rape cases.

“One of the major things that came across from the pedophiles and the rapists was that, ‘We can get away,’” Mitra said. They told him that either the woman wouldn’t file a complaint “or the victim will not be believed.”........Except in rare cases, trials last for years, in part because of a shortage of judges. India has 15.5 jurists per million people, while the U.S. has more than 100. To work through just the backlog of unresolved rape cases -- 86,032 at the end of 2012 -- the courts would have to decide more than 78 a day, every day, for three years straight.