‘A 15-year-old rape victim has been sentenced to 100 lashes for engaging in premarital sex, court officials said.
The charges against the girl were brought against her last year after police investigated accusations that her stepfather had raped her and killed their baby. He is still to face trial.
Prosecutors said her conviction did not relate to the rape case.
The government said it did not agree with the punishment and that it would look into changing the law….
‘Zaima Nasheed, a spokesperson for the juvenile court, said the girl was also ordered to remain under house arrest at a children’s home for eight months.
She defended the punishment, saying the girl had willingly committed an act outside of the law.
Officials said she would receive the punishment when she turns 18, unless she requested it earlier.
The case was sent for prosecution after police were called to investigate a dead baby buried on the island of Feydhoo in Shaviyani Atoll, in the north of the country.
Her stepfather was accused of raping her and impregnating her before killing the baby. The girl’s mother also faces charges for failing to report the abuse to the authorities.
‘Almost 90 percent of the people found guilty of “Zina” – fornication – and sentenced to flogging in 2011 were female, according to new statistics published by the Department of Judicial Administration last week.
A total of 129 fornication cases were filed last year and 104 people sentenced, out of which 93 were female. This includes 10 underage girls (below 18), 79 women between age 18-40 and and four women above 40 years.
Of the 11 males who were sentenced, only one was a minor, with the others aged between 25-40.’
Updated 23 December 2013 from BBC News 9 November 2013.
During the CHOGM meet the issue was brought forth, reports BBC.
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As Commonwealth leaders prepare to meet at a summit in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, allegations of rape and torture by the Sri Lanka security forces have emerged, some of them occurring four years after the civil war ended.
“When the lady left and that man closed the door, I knew what was going to happen,” says Vasantha. “They raped me.”
One evening earlier this year, Vasantha says, she was going back to her home in northern Sri Lanka when a white van drew up and two men asked for her identity card.
She says she was thrown into the back of the vehicle and blindfolded.
Watch Our World: Sri Lanka’s Unfinished War on BBC World News on Saturday 9 November at 11:30 GMT and on Sunday 10 November at 17:30 GMT and 22:30 GMT or watch it later on the BBC iPlayer.
Vasantha says she realised the authorities had finally caught up with her, four years after the war and just as she was about to leave for Britain on a student visa.
Her story is one of a number given to the BBC, horrific accounts of torture carried out long after hostilities ended.
During the civil war, Vasantha had helped Tamil Tiger rebels pass messages and set up safe houses in the capital, but she says she never took part in the fighting or held a gun.
Then, the United Nations observers were asked to leave by Sri Lanka’s government; the UN ordered them to clear out, and this left the Tamils at the hands of the SinhaleseBuddhist regime of Sri Lanka President Majinda Rajapaksa, to die without witness… but not completely.
As these terrible photos testify, the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers like to photograph their handiwork. They rape and abuse women, murder them, and then abuse their corpses, for the camera.
Many Tamils recorded the attacks they suffered, and a great deal of media was preserved somehow, even though so many of the people who took the pictures and video died.
Where their images of suffering and death end, the SLA soldier’s videos and photos begin. There have been officers of the Sri Lankan Army who have stepped forward to corroborate some of the darkest claims. Sri Lanka denies journalists access to the war zone, many disappeared people remain missing, stories of secret camps are rife, torture is commonplace”
Can there be anything more vile than this?
Abusing the raped Dead.A heap of Rapes.Taking a Snap of the Raped Dead.Yet Another bunch
While we have been concentrating on the rape of Adultwomen in India and had an Ordinance passed by The President on Rape, the silent malaise is the sexual abuse of the Child.
Child sexual abuse is disturbingly common in homes, schools, and residential care facilities inIndia. A government-appointed committee set up after the New Delhi attack to recommend legal and policy reform has found that child protection schemes “have clearly failed to achieve their avowed objective.”
The 82-page report, “Breaking the Silence: Child Sexual Abuse in India,” examines how current government responses are falling short, both in protecting children from sexual abuse and treating victims. Many children are effectively mistreated a second time by traumatic medical examinations and by police and other authorities who do not want to hear or believe their accounts. Government efforts to tackle the problem, including new legislation to protect children from sexual abuse, will also fail unless protection mechanisms are properly implemented and the justice system reformed to ensure that abuse is reported and fully prosecuted, Human Rights Watch said..
Even the quality of women Police available is disheartening.
I have found the women Police to be more heartless than a Policeman in terms of character and humane approach to family issues brought into Police Stations.
These women Police ensure that they get a good bribe to settle the issue even if what is agreed upon is totally unjustifiable.
With the advent of Chatting,Free Online sites for friendships(!?), ,some sites operating under the guise of Friendship nad Webcam, this menace is on the increase..
I often wonder how these sites are even being crawled by the search engines!
Should they not omit them in search?
Order Sex On Line
“The man, reported as being in his fifties, has been held on remand on suspicions of instigating child rape.
The man is suspected of having paid Filipino women to sexually assaultchildren in front of their webcams, while he watched from home in Sweden.
“He has paid them to get children, and then they’ve connected web cameras and then the women have, according to his demands, assaulted the children while he sat home watching.”
The children involved were often family members or neighbours of the women, who sometimes even took the kids out of school to perform when they were short of money.
This case is unique in Sweden, although police suspect that the crime itself is nothing new.
“This is the first time someone has been revealed in such a case in Sweden but he is probably not the first to do this.”
When probed as to why the remanded man hadn’t simply flown to the Philippines, Berglund explained it was likely a question of cost.
“It’s cheaper this way; you don’t need to pay the airfare. There are people in poor countries who are prepared to do these kind of things for money. When we ask them what they do with the money, they often answer ‘We buy rice’,” Berglund said.
Another decade passed before the “earnest resistance requirement,” which asked rape victims to establish that they had sufficiently fought off their assailants even when those assailants held weapons, was expunged.
Given these standards, rapists typically avoided imprisonment. There were 1,085 arrests for rape made in New York City in 1969; only 18 resulted in convictions.
The dismantling of various cultural and judicial obstacles to successful prosecution has proceeded well enough that we can now conduct civic debates about rape at the level of semantics. When former Representative Todd Akin of Missouri and other Republican politicians betrayed outrageous ignorance of the meaning and consequences of the crime last year, Americans responded with a virtually uniform voice of reproof and disgust at their language. “Rape is rape” was the meme quickly ignited to counter the lunacy.
And yet in some sense, the crisp clarity of that phrase is belied, however inadvertently, by a burgeoning progressive movement to broaden the legal understanding of the term. Last year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation changed its definition of “forcible rape” to include other types of sexual attacks when it gathers statistics.
Currently, there are two proposals in the State Legislature that seek to alter our thinking.
One, offered by Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas, Democrat of Queens, would re-categorize instances of forced oral and anal “conduct” as rape. They are currently punishable under the penal code as “criminal sexual acts,” and at the first-degree level come with the same strict sentencing guidelines that accompany rape convictions. This would not change if the bill were to become law. The move, in effect, is purely symbolic, intended to offer the victims of certain sexual crimes the permission to see themselves as survivors of rape in the eyes of the court. As Ms. Simotas has said: “No one goes around saying they were criminally sexually acted upon. Rape is a powerful word.”
This is indisputable, but we might deploy the same reasoning to argue that the power it levies, despite our best efforts, is stigmatizing and that our use of the word ought to be ratcheted down rather than up. As it happens, various states have eliminated the term rape from criminal codes in favor of more clinical language.
“Some of the newspapers mentioned that after I saw the guy masturbating, I didn’t report it. I did. I reported it,” the woman said in an interview outside her apartment on the Upper West Side. “There was a park ranger who came by, and I stopped him immediately and showed him the picture. And I said: ‘Look at this picture. This guy is in the Ramble.’ And the ranger said, ‘Oh, O.K., I’ll look out for him.’ ”
The rangers, who work for the New York City parks department, have the power to make arrests and issue citations with their primary responsibility being to ensure that people abide by park rules. The ranger walked toward the Ramble, and the woman believed she had done all she was supposed to.
“I felt that was enough,” she said.
Vickie Karp, a spokeswoman for the parks department, referred questions about whether the victim approached a ranger and what rangers’ responsibilities in such situations are to the Police Department.
Former U.S. Marine James Landrith joined HuffPost Live to tell his story of being raped by a pregnant woman decades ago. As host Mike Sacks points out, female sexual predators are often depicted as objects of teenage fantasy in popular culture, but this ignores the fact that men can be victims of rape by women.
Earlier this year, the United States government updated its official definition of rape to include any gender of the victim and perpetrator.
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