“If under aged girls are statutorily raped and the sexual act was however with consent, it may be good to have legislation that allows the perpetrator to marry the ‘victim’ with her consent.”
This gem is from Rajapakshe, President of Sri Lanka, the land that follows The Buddha!
As the rates of Rapes are increasing, especially by the Armed Forces, the Nation is worried.
The reaction of Rajapakshe is given at the top of this post.
What prompted him to say what he said?
This,
Sri Lanka Guardian Reports,
Last November a soldier was arrested for sexually abusing an eight year old girl.
The girl, the daughter of an ASP, was waiting in an anteroom in the CMC while her father was at a discussion about the Commonwealth Summit. The soldier was the bodyguard of a colonel who was at the same discussion. The girl revealed what was done to her by the ‘Army Uncle’ (“using words according to her knowledge”) only after she went home .
Any reasonable person would know why that child did not scream during the abuse, why she remained mute until she was safe at home. Her silence and inaction were functions of terror and ignorance. But if Lanka enacts the proposed Rape Marriage Law, the soldier might be able to argue that he abused the child with her consent. After all, she did not protest, did she? Or tell her father when he came in? And the President himself thinks that children can ‘consent’ to rape: “If under aged girls are statutorily raped and the sexual act was however with consent, it may be good to have legislation that allows the perpetrator to marry the ‘victim’ with her consent.”
A Lankan must be over 18 to vote, to drive, to smoke and to drink. Such limits are imposed globally because until a certain age is reached, a human being lacks the capacity to make mature and informed choices about important matters. Statutory rape provisions too belong in same category. Their main purpose is to prevent adults from exploiting the ignorance, the trust, the inexperience and the terror of children.
President Rajapaksa thinks otherwise. He says children can ‘consent’ to a sexual act. So when a male adult rapes a female child and claims that he did so with her consent and she is too confused or scared or shocked to prove otherwise, he can escape punishment, by promising to marry her when she is 18.
Currently statutory rape laws apply to children under 16. How old does the President think a female-child has to be, in order to ‘consent’ to a ‘sexual act’? Fourteen? Twelve? Younger?
The above-mentioned incident indicates, again, how vulnerable North-Eastern children must be, under de facto military occupation. It also proves that child abuse/rape is a problem for all Lankan parents and children. But what hope is there when the Presidential father thinks that children can ‘consent’ to rape, and that rapists should be allowed to marry their victims?”
The Army has honed its skills in raping,by raping Tamils .
Understandable.
Tamils deserve to be raped, is it?
Well then when it comes to Sinhalese,?
“UNICEF released a report on “Emerging concerns and case studies on child marriage in Sri Lanka” revealing details on statutory rape and early marriage in certain districts.
The study highlighted the increasing cases of child abuse and the “grossly inadequate” measures available for dealing with the problem.
The number of crimes against children increased by 64% in 2012 from a year earlier with 3 to 5 children being raped every day in Sri Lanka.”
Hurts some one,somewhere..?
Source.
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