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  • Rapes Drinking Media

    I had posted recently  two articles on the Reasons for Rape.

    A rape Poster.
    A rape Poster.

    One post dealt with the publicity seekers and the media coverage which seemed to have only the TRP in its mind.

    And the issue of punishing the accused in th recent Delhi Gang Rape descended  into a free for all for men Bashing and demand for more Freedom for women  to dress and  move about.

    In the din some issues  have been left out.

    One such dangerous influence is Drinking,.

    Rape Statistics US.
    Figure 1. Of the 12.1 million American women who have been raped, nearly 30% were assaulted when they were younger than 11 years old. Another 32% were raped between the ages of 11 and 17; 22% were raped between the ages of 18 and 24; 10% were between the ages of 25 and 28. 6% of rapes occurred in women over the age of 29.

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    Alcohol use by the victim or the perpetrator is frequently associated with acquaintance rape.

    • In one, study 26% of men who acknowledged committing sexual assault admitted that they were intoxicated at the time of the assault, and an additional 29% reported being mildly buzzed—55% were under the influence of alcohol.
    • In the same study 21% of the college women who experienced sexual aggression on a date were intoxicated at the time of the assault, and an additional 32% reported being mildly buzzed—53% were under the influence of alcohol.
    • More than once a minute, 78 times an hour, 1,871 times a day, girls and women in America are raped.

    Sexual assault has nothing to do with passion; it uses power and control to dominate and humiliate victims.

    • 50% of rapists are between the ages of 15 and 24 years old (see Figure 1).
    • Studies consistently conclude that 75% of all assaults are planned.  When three or more assailants are involved, the number climbs to 90%.
    • 78% of rape victims know their attackers.

    The average annual rate of rape and sexual assault among American Indians is 3.5 times higher than for all races.

    • American Indian victims of violence are the most likely of all races of victims to indicate that the offender committed the offense while drinking.
    Race of victim Percent of victims of violence reporting offender drinking (average annual percentage 1992-1996)
    American Indian 46%
    Black 28%
    White 36%
    Asian 22%

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    • Victims of rape and sexual assault often don’t report the crime to the police and often do not report it to anyone.
    • According to Bureau of Justice Statistics, over 70 % of sexual assaults are not reported. For Native women reporting can be really difficult because of the high level of mistrust for white agencies and helpers.  Other reasons Native women do not report sexual assault is the fear of being ostracized by their families, as well as the complicated jurisdictional issues on reservations.
    • The National Violence Against women survey indicated a 15.9 percent victimization rate of American Indian/Alaska Natives by an intimate partner—significantly higher than for women of other races.
    • Of the 854 American Indians convicted in federal court in fiscal year 1997, 20 % were convicted for rape.”

    Now if we look at the coverage of Media on the recent gang rape , how many of them focused on the issue of punishing th guilty?

    They concentrated more who said what on the ‘Rape’

    The jokers who came on the Television channels were interested in cheap publicity and said things more for shock value so that they may be noticed.

    Even those who had the interests of women were crude to the point of calling women names, instead of asking them to be careful.

    This type of coverage is not new.

    Media, including print Media sensationalizes any thing that is perverted.

    Look at the coverage they extend to father/uncles raping a child, women/murdering their husbands with the help of their paramour,

    revealing /nude photographs under the garb of social reporting and Fashion.

    Look at our own Times of India, whose TimesNow cried Foul the most in the recent gang Rape, publishing a Page In Your City showing faceless people showing off cleavage, writing about drinking parties.!

    Now to Investigative reporting.

    In the name of revealing the inner world of Tees the SUn publishes the Diary of Two Teens.

    ”

    Found out that on Friday Hetty got three love bites, two from Luke and one from Jake.

    May 17, 1993: Went to athletics. Tom is such a b*****d. He took my trainers so I took one of his and Katy took the other.

    Then Jake threw one over the fence!

    He took my hair ruffle and went to get his trainers so me and Katy followed him into the boys’ changing rooms and he attacked me with his Lynx (deodorant)…

    It went all in my hair so Katy tipped his pencil case out and we kicked it around and then I got my ruffle back.

    July 1, 1993: Teacher found out about Katy going to an all-night party.

    She thinks she is sleeping with a boy in the year above us and she has to tell her mum. I hope she is OK.

    July 2, 1993: Katy told her mum and she didn’t mind.

    I was surprised but I wish my mum was like that.”

     http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/4744201/my-mad-fat-diary-readers-entries.html#ixzz2I6YpojO6

     

    http://www.montana.edu/wwwai/imsd/alcohol/Vanessa/vwrapefactsheet.htm

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  • Delhi Gang Rape Accused Planned Rape To Kill Full Story

    The Delhi gang Rape accused planned to rape some one and if they encountered any resistance, they planned to kill the victim or those who interfered with them.

    Their target was not Jyoti Singh Singh Pandey specifically. (Damini,Nirbhaya).

    Just any woman will do.

    From the interview of the Clinical psychologist it is clear that they were under the influence of Alcohol.

    Jyoti Singh Pandey with a friend was looking for transport after watching  The Life of Pi in a South Delhi Mall.

    This is how the incident unfolded .

    Photo of 6th accused of Delhi Gang rape
    Photo of 6th accused of Delhi Gang rape

    “The accused “decided ahead of time” they would look for a woman and “intended to kill her”, the police report claims.

    The gang boarded a bus that the alleged gang leader, Ram Singh, drove by day to ferry children to school and went out in search of a victim. They found the student accompanied by a male friend who were looking for transport home after watching the movie “Life of Pi” at a South Delhi shopping mall, according to the report submitted to the court.

    Police arrested Singh the next day after tracing the bus using security camera footage from a hotel. He was still wearing a T-shirt stained with the victim’s blood and “on sustained interrogation” confessed and led the police to his accomplices, the police report said.

    The other accused are Singh’s brother Mukesh, Akshay Kumar Singh, alias Thakur, Pawan Gupta and Vinay Sharma, all of whom are expected to plead not guilty when the trial begins. Mukesh Singh claims he was tortured while in police custody, his lawyer said on Thursday.

    A sixth member of the gang, a teenager, is being processed as a juvenile, has not so far been charged and will be tried separately. Police have said they are conducting bone tests to determine his age as they suspect he may be over 18 years old.

    IRON RODS

    After being caught by police, Ram Singh produced two bloodied iron rods from the bus, which had been used to beat the victim and her friend, and were inserted into her body, causing massive organ damage, the report claims.

    According to the police dossier, the accused turned the lights out and took turns driving the bus, while two men held the woman down and another raped her. She suffered bite marks on several parts of her body, but also fought back and managed to bite her attackers. Their injuries are part of the case against them, the police report said.

    After removing part of the victim’s intestines and throwing both her and her companion from the moving vehicle, they then tried to drive the bus over her. But her companion pulled her away, the report said.

    They were left “badly injured and bleeding” on a flyover in south Delhi and were found naked by a highway worker who gave the man a shirt and called the police.

    The victim, whom Reuters has opted not to name because Indian law generally prohibits doing so, died in a Singapore hospital of infection and “multiple organ failure” two weeks after the crime.

    After the attack, Ram Singh tried to wipe the bus clean with the victims’ clothes, then made a fire to burn the clothes and other incriminating evidence, the report alleges. Witnesses from the neighbourhood he lived in came to the fire to warm themselves, the report said.

    The dossier purports to rely on some 80 witnesses, along with DNA matches, mobile telephone tower records, video evidence, stolen goods belonging to the victims in possession of the accused, the bloodied clothes of the suspects, and the weapons used in the attack.

    The prosecution will seek the death sentence for murder.

    ….

    Police sources say the sixth accused in the Delhi gang-rape case – a 17-year-old who has been held at a juvenile home since his arrest – was the one who called out to the victim and her friend on that fateful night on December 16.

    He allegedly told them the bus could take them to their destination. And once they boarded the bus he made lewd remarks about the girl. A NDTV report quoted police sources as saying the teenager allegedly raped her twice, once while she was unconscious….

    Source.Reuters

    http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/01/11/india-gang-rape-charge-idINDEE90A04E20130111

    emirates 247.

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  • Delhi Gang Rape “Not The First Crime of the Accused”

    Shocking to read that the accused of the Delhi Gang Rape, where the Girl Jyoti Singh Pandey previously (referred to as Damini,Nirbhaya)

    are not new to  rape.

    In an interview, to New York Times Dr.Mitra, a Clinical Psychologist  made this out.

    Read his analysis on this case, reasons.

    Very mature and professional amidst mass hysteria.

    Jyoti Singh Pandey, the Delhi gang rape victim
    Jyoti Singh Pandey, the Delhi gang rape victim

    “Take, for example, the recent case, where the rape happened in a bus, the group of men was in a surrounding that was familiar to them, and hence had a sense of security. Rapists also attempt to take total control of the victim, physical and psychological, through physical violations or threats or both.

    When I did the study initially, it was very difficult to get them to talk about the act. They would not acknowledge that they had committed the crime. There was a widespread belief among the offenders that they were going to get away; they thought they would be able to circumvent the system. It was usually their third or fourth crime, and their confidence level that they would be able to get away was very high. Any behavioral psychologist would tell you that this does not come with the first crime.
    There was also almost no sense of guilt or remorse. The general feeling even among the convicted was that they would still manage to get away. Many of them told me that they had appealed to the higher courts, or said they had been framed, or said they had not been careful enough.

    On the Influences for Rape.

    I would say the instances of gang rape have increased in the past five to six years. When a group of men come together, say, for a celebration, their threshold would go down. A lot of these crimes were also committed under the influence of alcohol, which further reduces their discretionary powers. The sense of collective responsibility takes hold, which makes it possible for the individual to do things which he may not ever do alone.

    When they are in a group, they feel a sense of security. For example, if they get caught on the way, let’s say by a policeman, they think they can always pay a bribe and get away. This is possible when the system is corrupt and there is no fear of the rule of law in the criminal mind.
    The decision-making mechanism is also different in a group. There is always someone taking the leadership role and others following. There is usually someone in the group who resists the course of action suggested by the leader, but whose voice is suppressed. Again in the recent case, the reports suggest that the driver of the bus was the one who made the decision and the rest followed.
    Unfortunately, there is very little awareness among the police force in India about the functioning and control of such elements. For example, in a city like Hong Kong, if a group of men are seen driving around in an inebriated state, or are seen on the road behaving in an inappropriate manner, a police vehicle would immediately start trailing them, and they would be made to take an alcohol test and be booked if they had already committed any minor offenses, which could be a step towards preventing a bigger crime. The police are on an active lookout to prevent such situations before they occur.
    Q.
    One of the reasons cited in the rise in the occurrence of these crimes is the empowerment of women, which leads to a backlash from the men. Would you agree?
    A.
    I don’t agree with people who say revenge against women, who are seen as more empowered, now can be seen as a valid reason. It is based on a very patriarchal reasoning which absolves men of any responsibility.
    It is also a subtle way of influencing the criminal justice system, by portraying the women to be somewhat responsible for the crime.
    Q.
    News reports also suggest that most rape victims know their attackers.
    A.
    This understanding of the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator is misleading. How would you say that the woman knows the man? For example, if a man lives in the neighborhood and the women is aware that he lives there, or if they have interacted on some occasions, would you say that they know each other? This is another way of making the crime seem to be of a social-familial nature, or to confine it to the limits of the community and not see a role for the criminal justice system in its redressal.Do you support calls for the death penalty for rapists?

    A.
    I am a bit worried about the protests and the direction they are taking right now. Though I support them, I feel that asking for more severe punishment would not help if we are not ensuring the certainty of punishment. By doing this, on the contrary, we would be loading a criminal justice system which is already falling apart.
    I have testified in nearly 150 such cases in Delhi. I find that there is great impunity and very little fear of rule of law. Most of these types of crimes are preventable.
    Q.
    Does the “naming and shaming” method work?
    A.
    I think that maintaining a database is a good idea, but the whole “name and shame” campaign may not work. It is an antiquated medieval belief, which leads to loss of objectivity. In fact, shaming may not work as a deterrent. It may do exactly the opposite.
    I distinctly remember when the police superintendents attended the group meetings I conducted with the sex offenders in the jail. They would adopt a very moralizing approach to them, and pass statements which are often heard in India, like: Sharam nahi aati? Ghar pe maa behen nahi hai kya? (Aren’t you ashamed of yourself? Do you not have mothers and sisters at your home?) And I remember looking at the offenders themselves, and there would be a gleam in their eyes.
    Which is why this demand for shaming scares me. It has not worked in any part of the world. What we really need is an overhauling of the criminal justice system.
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  • “Gang Rape Victim Jyoti Singh Pandey” Father Interview

    Various names have been given to the New Delhi Gang Rape victim,Nirbhaya, Damini, Amaanat, Braveheart all of them contextual.

    Now the victim’s Father has revealed her real name,Jyoti Singh Pandey.

    This requires a lot of inner strength from a bleeding heart.

    Delhi Gang Rape victim
    Jyoti Singh Pandey a.k.a.Nirbhaya Delhi Gang Rape victim

    The  Delhi Gang Rape Timeline.

    RAGE AND PROTESTS: HOW THE INDIA RAPE CASE HAS UNFOLDED

    • December 16 – The woman is gang-raped and attacked on a bus in Delhi
    • December 18 – Angry protestors begin to take to the streets to call for a government crackdown on rape. Protests last for days
    • December 19 – Three of the men accused of raping the young woman – Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh – appear in court for the first time
    • December 22 – 72 people are hurt as protestors clash with police in Delhi
    • December 23 – Indian Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinate orders a review of rape laws
    • December 23 – Three of the accused appear at court with an angry mob calling for the death penalty outside
    • December 25 – A policeman allegedly trampled during anti-rape protests dies. Eight people are charged with his murder
    • December 27 – The injured student is flown to Singapore for treatment as her condition worsens
    • December 29 – She dies after suffering a heart attack and organ failure
    • January 4 – The attack’s other victim Awindra Pandey claims that police took two hours to take him and his companion to hospital following the attack
    • January 7 – 150 people attempt to cram into a courtroom as all five of the accused appear to face charges for the first time
    • January 8 – Guru Asaram Bapu sparks outrage by claiming that the victim was as much to blame as the attackers for not being more friendly to them

    Father Speaks:.

    Father of Delhi gang rape Victim.
    Heartbreak: Badri Singh, father of the woman who was gang-raped and murdered in India, has said that he had been hopeful that his daughter would make a full recovery from her horrific injuries

    ‘Speaking to ITV1’s Daybreak, Mr Singh said: ‘When we went to Singapore she was not conscious but she had tears in her eyes. Then I realised she was in a really bad state.

    ‘I couldn’t think what to do at that time, I was like a bird without wings, I was neither here nor there.

    ‘So when I thought she might get better, I used to get filled with some hope. When I was told that she might not get well and might have to have an operation I felt uncomfortable.

    ‘It was difficult for me, but when she was put on a ventilator it gave me some hope that she would get better. I thought she might get better and she would live.’

    Mr Singh said that his daughter’s death 13 days after the horrific attack has ‘brought an awakening’ to Indian society and called for his country to no longer turn a blind eye to attacks on women.

    He added that he would like to see a new law or a hospital named after his daughter.

    Describing his daughter, Mr Singh said: ‘When she was born my aunties and uncles always used to carry her around, those were really lovely days.

    ‘Right from the start her ambition was to be a doctor. Her main aim was that our family wouldn’t have to suffer any more, she wanted to put the difficult life behind us, wipe out our poverty.

    ‘She also wanted to make sure I didn’t have to keep working hard late in life.’

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    ………Mr Sharma said that he would contest Indian police‘s handling of evidence after prosecutors claimed to have forensic evidence which links the men to the attack.

    A 17-year-old who is also accused of the woman’s rape and murder will appear at a youth court separately.

    Meanwhile, the victim’s companion on the night of the attack, 28-year-old software engineer Awindra Pandey, has spoken out about the terrible ordeal and his friend’s horrific injuries.

    He told The Times that his efforts to flag down help from passing motorists after the pair had been dumped in the road were ignored for 20 minutes.

    Mr Pandey said that police were reluctant to help his friend despite her injuries.

    ‘She was asking for water and complaining of pain in her stomach,’ he said.

    ‘She was bleeding heavily. They (the police) asked me to put her in the van.’

    He said that the pair, who were not dating, had been to a cinema in the city to see Life of Pi but were unable to persuade a rickshaw driver to take them all the way back to the Dwarka suburb where the woman lived with her parents.

    They were dropped halfway home, when a phone call from her mother asking her to hurry home prompted them to board an illegal bus with blacked out windows.

    Mr Pandey confronted other passengers when they began insulting the pair but they soon produced iron rods, he said.

    He said that he was beaten and fell to the floor of the bus.

    First hand account of the incident.