Islam's Sexual Insanity > 50 y/o Muslim man rapes 1 y/o Girl; 13 y/o girl marries 29 y/o Muslim because girls can't say "no"

 

Uttar Pradesh: Police arrest Muslim man

for raping 1-y/o child in Bahraich,

victim hospitalised

OpIndia, February 19, 2024:

On Sunday (18th February), the police arrested a 50-year-old man named Bhondu Rehman for the rape of a 1-year-old child in Nanpara town in Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh.

As per reports, the incident took place on Saturday (17th February) evening. The victim was playing at that time. Rehman took the child to the field under the pretext of feeding her.

He then raped the 1-year-old. After the condition of the child deteriorated, Rehman dumped her body in the field and fled the crime scene.

Upon learning about the matter, the victim’s family immediately notified the police and admitted her to the Community Health Centre (CHC) Nanpara for immediate medical attention. She was later transferred to Lucknow Medical College for better treatment.

A police team, led by Mithilesh Kumar Rai, reached the crime scene and began a probe into the matter. While speaking about the matter, Superintendent of Police (Bahraich) Vrinda Shukla informed, “An incident of rape of a 1-year-old child has come to light in Nanpara police station area.”

“The crime was committed by a 50-year-old man. The police were informed about the matter…The accused has been already arrested. Given that the girl is just 1 year old, we are transferring her to Lucknow for better treatment,” she added….

 

When young girls get married in Islam, they have to quit school because education is no longer needed when the rest of your life is about serving your husband and his family. Also, child brides cannot disagree with their husbands because they are uneducated. That's Islamic logic at its best.

Muslim 13-y/o girl forced to marry 29-y/o,

‘A girl can’t say no. It’s against our culture.’

FEB 20, 2024 12:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER

Western feminists remain notably silent about this.

Islamic tradition records that Muhammad consummated his marriage with (i.e., raped) Aisha when she was nine, and the resultant fact that child marriage is accepted in wide swaths of the Islamic world. Child marriage has abundant attestation in Islamic tradition and law.

Turkey’s directorate of religious affairs (Diyanet) said in January 2018 that under Islamic law, girls as young as nine can marry.

“Islam has no age barrier in marriage and Muslims have no apology for those who refuse to accept this” — Ishaq Akintola, professor of Islamic Eschatology and Director of Muslim Rights Concern, Nigeria

“There is no minimum marriage age for either men or women in Islamic law. The law in many countries permits girls to marry only from the age of 18. This is arbitrary legislation, not Islamic law.” — Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-‘Ubeidi, Iraqi expert on Islamic law

There is no minimum age for marriage and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.” — Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council.

“Islam does not forbid marriage of young children.” — Pakistan’s Council of Islamic Ideology

Hadiths that Muslims consider authentic record that Muhammad’s favorite wife, Aisha, was six when Muhammad wedded her and nine when he consummated the marriage:

“The Prophet wrote the (marriage contract) with Aisha while she was six years old and consummated his marriage with her while she was nine years old and she remained with him for nine years (i.e. till his death)” (Bukhari 7.62.88).

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Rape, Gang-Rape, Brainwashing, Torture - Where Xi Jinping is Willing to Go to Purge China of Islam

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It's a situation not unlike the Rohingya in Myanmar. In Myanmar, Muslim Rohingya moved into the western province over the past couple of centuries and began to grow in numbers. Deeply Buddhist Myanmar sees them as a threat to their religion and culture, which they are, of course. 

The Uighurs, also Muslim, moved into China's western province from central Asia and, as Muslims do so well, they grew in numbers. In Beijing's mind, they are an increasing threat against the communist state.

History reveals that Islam is a threat to existing cultures and religions everywhere they go. I most certainly do not condone what China is doing to the Uighurs, or what Myanmar is doing to the Rohingya. My point is that Islam will become dominant wherever it settles and that unless European countries are willing to capitulate and take on Muslim ideology, there will soon come a time when they will be facing the same situation as Myanmar and China. The longer the situation is ignored, the more difficult the problem will be to solve.

'Their goal is to destroy everyone': Uighur camp detainees

allege systematic rape

By Matthew Hill, David Campanale and Joel Gunter

BBC News

Women in China's "re-education" camps for Uighurs have been systematically raped, sexually abused, and tortured, according to detailed new accounts obtained by the BBC.

You may find some of the details in this story distressing.

Tursunay Ziawudun spent nine months inside China's network of internment camps. BBC

The men always wore masks, Tursunay Ziawudun said, even though there was no pandemic then.

They wore suits, she said, not police uniforms.

Sometime after midnight, they came to the cells to select the women they wanted and took them down the corridor to a "black room", where there were no surveillance cameras.

Several nights, Ziawudun said, they took her. "Perhaps this is the most unforgettable scar on me forever," she said. "I don't even want these words to spill from my mouth."

Tursunay Ziawudun spent nine months inside China's vast and secretive system of internment camps in the Xinjiang region. According to independent estimates, more than a million men and women have been detained in the sprawling network of camps, which China says exist for the "re-education" of the Uighurs and other minorities.

Human rights groups say the Chinese government has gradually stripped away the religious and other freedoms of the Uighurs, culminating in an oppressive system of mass surveillance, detention, indoctrination, and even forced sterilisation.

The policy flows from China's President, Xi Jinping, who visited Xinjiang in 2014 in the wake of a terror attack by Uighur separatists. Shortly after, according to documents leaked to the New York Times, he directed local officials to respond with "absolutely no mercy". The US government said last month that China's actions since amounted to a genocide. China says reports of mass detention and forced sterilisation are "lies and absurd allegations".

First-hand accounts from inside the internment camps are rare, but several former detainees and a guard have told the BBC they experienced or saw evidence of an organised system of mass rape, sexual abuse and torture.

Tursunay Ziawudun, who fled Xinjiang after her release and is now in the US, said women were removed from the cells "every night" and raped by one or more masked Chinese men. She said she was tortured and later gang-raped on three occasions, each time by two or three men.

Ziawudun has spoken to the media before, but only from Kazakhstan, where she "lived in constant fear of being sent back to China", she said. She said she believed that if she revealed the extent of the sexual abuse she had experienced and seen, and was returned to Xinjiang, she would be punished more harshly than before. And she was ashamed, she said.

Tursunay Ziawudun was able to flee to Kazakhstan, and then on to relative safety in the US. BBC

It is impossible to verify Ziawudun's account completely because of the severe restrictions China places on reporters in the country, but travel documents and immigration records she provided to the BBC corroborate the timeline of her story. Her descriptions of the camp in Xinyuan county - known in Uighur as Kunes county - match satellite imagery analysed by the BBC, and her descriptions of daily life inside the camp, as well as the nature and methods of the abuse, correspond with other accounts from former detainees.

Internal documents from the Kunes county justice system from 2017 and 2018, provided to the BBC by Adrian Zenz, a leading expert on China's policies in Xinjiang, detail planning and spending for "transformation through education" of "key groups" - a common euphemism in China for the indoctrination of the Uighurs. In one Kunes document, the "education" process is described as "washing brains, cleansing hearts, strengthening righteousness and eliminating evil".

The BBC also interviewed a Kazakh woman from Xinjiang who was detained for 18 months in the camp system, who said she was forced to strip Uighur women naked and handcuff them, before leaving them alone with Chinese men. Afterwards, she cleaned the rooms, she said.

"My job was to remove their clothes above the waist and handcuff them so they cannot move," said Gulzira Auelkhan, crossing her wrists behind her head to demonstrate. "Then I would leave the women in the room and a man would enter - some Chinese man from outside or policeman. I sat silently next to the door, and when the man left the room I took the woman for a shower."

The Chinese men "would pay money to have their pick of the prettiest young inmates", she said.

Some former detainees of the camps have described being forced to assist guards or face punishment. Auelkhan said she was powerless to resist or intervene.

Asked if there was a system of organised rape, she said: "Yes, rape."

"They forced me to go into that room," she said. "They forced me to take off those women's clothes and to restrain their hands and leave the room."

Some of the women who were taken away from the cells at night were never returned, Ziawudun said. Those who were brought back were threatened against telling others in the cell what had happened to them.

"You can't tell anyone what happened, you can only lie down quietly," she said. "It is designed to destroy everyone's spirit."

Mr Zenz told the BBC that the testimony gathered for this story was "some of the most horrendous evidence I have seen since the atrocity began".

"This confirms the very worst of what we have heard before," he said. "It provides authoritative and detailed evidence of sexual abuse and torture at a level clearly greater than what we had assumed."

There is much more on this story on BBC World News

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Dubai-based girl abused by Indian salesman

after buying bread

Defendant chased the girl to the lift, muzzled her mouth before molesting her

Ali Al Shouk, Senior Reporter
Gulf News

Dubai: A Dubai salesman has been accused of sexually abusing a girl, 10, when she was sent by her mother to buy bread.

The Dubai Court of First instance heard on Monday that the 37-year-old Kenyan mother asked her daughter to go to a nearby supermarket at Al Qusais to buy bread in January this year when the 23-year-old Indian salesman followed her out of the supermarket and into the lift to sexually abuse her.

“My daughter returned after five minutes with the bread and asked me to call the police. She told me that a worker touched her body inside the lift,” the mother said in records.

The girl’s father went to the supermarket and called Dubai Police who arrested the defendant.

“My daughter claimed that the defendant asked her to wait for him inside the supermarket but she ignored him and left. He chased her to the lift and muzzled her mouth before abusing her. My daughter was shaking with fear,” the mother added.

Security cameras showed the defendant following the victim to the lift. He admitted to touching the girl’s breast with his elbow.

His elbow.... right!

Dubai Public Prosecution charged the defendant with sexually abusing the girl.

The verdict is expected on February 20.

Indian woman confronts police chief husband about affair,

he beats her up

Karishma H. Nandkeolyar, Web Editor
Gulf News

Narendra Suryavanshi in a screengrab from the video

Madhya Pradesh: When a woman confronted her cheating husband in Madhya Pradesh, she may have expected an apology for or him to be contrite. Instead she got a volley of hate and abuse. 

The husband, who has been named as Gandhwani Police Station Incharge Narendra Suryavanshi, assaulted her on the road, as passers-by tried to stop him. A video of the incident was posted online on February 11, which shows him pulling her by the hair after she opposes his extra marital affair.

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His superior said after the incident came to life that Suryavanshi has been sent to district lines  (another district?) and an investigation is under way.

India: Girls forced to remove innerwear in Gujarat college for menstruation checks

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"There are no words to describe the humiliation that we faced."

Gulf News

The students are now demanding action legal action against the authorities of the education institution for making such a move.

The students were told to undress after a used sanitary napkin was found in a garden outside Sahjanand Girls Institute, where they are banned from the hostel when they are having their periods.

"There are no words to describe the humiliation that we faced," said one of the students protesting outside the college in Bhuj, in the western state of Gujarat.

Deep-rooted social taboos remain in India around menstruating women. In some rural areas, women are made to sleep separately during periods. They are banned from entering some temples.

College authorities lined up 68 students in the washroom and ordered them to undress one by one, the students told reporters.

The college is run by the conservative Hindu sect Swaminarayan. The sect runs lavish temples around the world, including in London. Its rules bar students from staying in the hostel during their periods.

Menstruating women students must stay in an isolated basement area and keep away from the kitchen and the place of worship. They also have to sit at the back of the classroom during lectures.

A view of the Shree Sahajanand Girls Institute

Image Credit: Courtesy of www.ssgi.co.in

The college said it had set up an inquiry and indicated action could be taken against the staff behind the checks. College trustee Pravin Pindoria said: "The girls were informed about the hostel rules before they took admission. I have called a meeting of the administrative committee which will take action against the responsible persons."

NCW takes cognisance of 'strip test' incident

The National Commission for Women (NCW) has taken cognisance of a media report of the incident in which girls were allegedly forced to undergo 'strip' test to check if they were menstruating.

"The Commission is disturbed by the report of this incident at Sahjanand Girls' Institute in Bhuj, Gujarat. The report also states that the Kutch University authorities have taken the matter for internal query and based on the finding they would take further actions," read a statement from the NCW.

"NCW will set up an inquiry team and visit the girls at the institute hostel, to speak and inquire about the incident. NCW has also appraised the Kutch University in-charge Vice Chancellor Darshna Dholakia and the DGP of Gujarat, Shivanand Jha, to look into the matter thoroughly and report to the Commission at the earliest on their action taken reports to date," the statement added.

Besides this, NCW has also written to the Sahjanand Girls' Institute Trustee, Pravin Pindora, and Principal Rita Raniga to "give explanation of this shameful exercise" that has taken place in their institute.

"The Commission encourages the girls from the institute to come forward and speak without fear on their grievances from this experience to the finding authority, or on any other similar incidents of exploitation if occurred to them in the past, and was not addressed before," the statement read.

India: family forced girl to commit suicide for compensation

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Village politics and the lure of compensation made the family sacrifice the girl

Gulf News

  

Meerut: In a shocking twist in the suicide by a 16-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped at gunpoint a few weeks ago, it has now emerged that the minor was forced to hang herself by her own family members.

The family had forced the girl to blame a 65-year-old man for raping her and then drove her to suicide, accusing the police of inaction.

Apparently, village politics and the lure of compensation made the family sacrifice the girl. The family had a dispute with the alleged rape accused.

A senior police official said that the matter came to light during investigations when the girl's mobile phone was screened. Two members of the girl's family were arrested on Friday after the audio clips in the phone revealed the family's role.

"There were some audio clips in which the girl is talking to the 65-year-old man and also his family members and telling them how she is being pressured to blame him," the official said.

Superintendent of Police, Avinash Pandey said that the post mortem report of the girl also did not confirm rape.

The girl had hanged herself at her house in a Meerut village on Wednesday afternoon reportedly due to police inaction. The father of the Class 9 student claimed that she had committed suicide because of police inaction in her complaint of rape.

"The FIR was registered on January 25 as the SHO called my daughter for recording the statement and also for medical examination at least eight times only to harass us. The police had also put pressure on us for a compromise with the accused by taking money as compensation from him," the father of the girl said in a complaint with the police.

He also alleged that the accused had attempted to molest the younger sister of the victim in December last year and at that time too, the local police had refused to lodge an FIR.

After the girl committed suicide, residents of the area protested against police inaction and refused to hand over the body to the police. They relented only after BJP MLA Dinesh Khatik assured speedy action.

Meanwhile, Senior Superintendent of Police (Meerut) Ajay Sahni has asked SP (Rural), Avinash Pandey, to probe the causes leading to the incident.

Did she really commit suicide, or did she have some help? It's amazing how insignificant girls are to some Indian families. The culture is sick and may be beyond fixing.

Mexican protesters demand action on femicides

after 25-y/o woman's death

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"I don't want femicides to distract from the raffle," - Obrador

By Christen McCurdy

A hooded woman lights an aerosol to partially flame one of the doors of the National Palace as a group of activists protest against feminicides in Mexico City, Mexico Friday. Some 100 women took part in this collective action against femicides in Mexico's capital, sparked by the recent murder and dismemberment of Ingrid Escamilla, one of the latest cases of gender violence in the North American country. By Jorge Nunez/EPA-EFE

(UPI) -- Dozens of women tossed paint and sprayed red graffiti on Mexico's National Palace Friday to protest government and media handling of the death of a 25-year-old woman in Mexico City as well as the high rate of murders of young women in the country -- most of which go unsolved.

Ingrid Escamilla was found dead and extensively mutilated in a Mexico City home Sunday. Police immediately arrested a 46-year-old man who prosecutors say was Escamilla's husband, and who confessed to the slaying when police arrived.

Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said prosecutors would demand the maximum sentence against the alleged perpetrator.

"Femicide is an absolutely condemnable crime. It is appalling when hatred reaches extremes like in the case of Ingrid Escamilla," Sheinbaum wrote on Twitter.

The case has drawn outrage in the country in part because it is part of a trend that has largely gone unaddressed: according to Mexico's Attorney General Alejandro Gertz, femicides -- crimes committed against women specifically because of their gender -- have increased 137 percent in the last five years.

In 2019, 1006 femicides were reported in Mexico, compared with 912 in 2018.

Less than 10 percent of such crimes are solved.

Escamilla's death has also been a flashpoint for anger about the ongoing crimes because it was so gruesome, and because its gruesomeness was so well-publicized.

Photos of Escamilla's body -- from which her skin and several organs had been removed -- were leaked to two tabloids, drawing criticism on social media and prompting the creation of hashtag campaigns to commemorate Escamilla with beautiful photos.

"You deserve to be remembered for who you were, not what they did to you," one Twitter user wrote.

Gertz recently sparked outrage by saying he didn't think femicides should be classified as its own category of homicide.

And Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador sparked new outrage when he chastised a journalist for asking questions about femicides during a news conference about a government raffle: "I don't want femicides to distract from the raffle," he said.

On Friday he said he didn't intend to dismiss the problem.

Well, he certainly didn't intend to address the problem.

On the same day -- Valentine's Day -- protesters traveled to the National Palace, where López Obrador lives and works to demand he apologize for his remarks and to demand an end to impunity for crimes against women.

Marches were expected to continue Saturday.

This accused sex offender has been on the run for nine years, so why doesn't anyone know it?

ABC Kimberley By Erin Parke

PHOTO: Accused sex offender Charles Batham was well-known in Broome for running an ultralight aeroplane tour company. (ABC News)

Charles Batham is the aristocratic-sounding Brit who became a fixture in the tropical Western Australian tourist town of Broome and has been described as creepy, charming, and eccentric. He is also an alleged child molester.

For a decade, Mr Batham was best known for his shock of wiry, ginger hair, and an unconventional lifestyle — living in a converted double-decker bus and taking tourists on ultralight plane tours.

But in 2011 it all fell apart in a paedophilia scandal that exposed not just Mr Batham, but the weaknesses in the international legal system that has allowed him to remain on the run for nine years.

PHOTO: Charles Batham was a well-known figure in Broome, by the time child abuse allegations began to emerge. (Supplied)

Now the ABC can reveal the alleged sex offender has not only evaded arrest, but been issued with a new British passport under a different name, apparently allowing him to move freely around the world.

"I just feel terrible that this has happened," Broome local, Robyn Maher, said. "I feel annoyed that he's not had to go to court and face up to what he's accused of doing … and it makes you wonder, what is he getting up to now in some other part of the world?"

For former policeman and child protection advocate Glenn Hulley, the case highlighted weaknesses in the international systems aimed at tracking and catching serious offenders. "Cases like this definitely highlight the gaps in the system," he said.

"The system has clearly failed, and I think here needs to be an investigation, because the public deserves answers."

PHOTO: Charles Batham photographed with a passenger at Broome International Airport in 2006.

Nine years a fugitive

Mr Batham has never been convicted, nor acquitted, of the child molestation accusations because, after being charged, he breached bail and fled to Malaysia.

On the run since February 2011, Mr Batham would now be 77 years old; an aging international fugitive with an Interpol Red Notice out for his arrest.

Nine years on from his absconding, one of his alleged victims has spoken out for the first time.

Vanessa* described not just the devastating effect Mr Batham has had on her life, but her confusion about the hush-hush approach by authorities.

"I spend a lot of time just waiting for a sense of justice or closure, or anything like that," she said. I feel like I can't move forward in my life until this is in some way finished."

A disabled child was allegedly sexually assaulted by a 67-y/o man in a public toilet in Spain

As reported by the National Police, the teenager who suffers from learning difficulties had been using a public toilet at the Santander train station in Cantabria. The man had seen the young boy leave the restroom, forcing him back inside into a cubicle. It was here that he ordered the teenager to perform oral sex on him.

Investigators state that the child was extremely scared and ran home after the assault, informing his legal guardians of what happened to him who in turn went to the police.

Thanks to the description provided by the child, investigations were able to identify the suspect through analysing CCTV footage at the station. He was subsequently arrested and charged with sexual abuse of a minor.

As Euro Weekly News understands has since been remanded in custody with investigators indicating that the detainee has an extensive criminal record for similar crimes.

Ex-scout leader arrested over alleged sex abuse released without charge in Ireland

Barry Roche Southern Correspondent

Irish Times

A man in his 70s arrested in connection with an investigation into Scouting Ireland was released without charge on Friday night. File Photograph: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos

A man in his 70s arrested in connection with an investigation into Scouting Ireland was released without charge on Saturday.

The former scout leader was arrested and questioned about the sexual abuse of young boys in the city over a 30-year period.

Detectives arrested the man at his home in Cork city at 7am on Friday for questioning after more than 20 men made complaints that they were abused by the man.

The men, who range in age from their 20s to their 40s, have alleged they were each abused by the man when they were teenagers and were alone with him. They have alleged the abuse happened at various locations including at the man’s home, a scout hall and a scout camp between 1980s and the 2000s.

In some cases the men have alleged the abuse began when the man plied them with alcohol and showed them pornographic movies at his home.

The man was arrested under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act which allows gardaí detain suspects for up to 24 hours before they are released or charged. The man was taken by gardaí to Togher Garda station where he was being questioned by officers on Friday night about the allegations by the complainants.

Gardaí also carried out searches at the man’s home, a business premises, a scout hall and a scout camp all in Cork as well as a holiday residence in Co Kerry. They seized laptops, mobile phones and other electronic equipment for examination by Garda computer experts to see if they contain any evidence relating to sexual abuse.

In all, more than 20 gardaí including detectives attached to the Protective Services Unit based at Anglesea Street Garda station were involved in the operation. 

It is the second time that the man has been arrested by gardaí investigating allegations of child sex abuse by a member of Scouting Ireland in Cork city. He was previously arrested in October 2018 and questioned for several hours at Togher Garda station before being released without charge.

It is understood the man was stood down by the scouting authorities a number of years ago when they learned of the first complaint made against him.

A file will now be prepared for the information of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

Who, if he is true to form, will decide there is not enough evidence to prosecute and let him go again!

Another Fox News Personality Out for Alleged Sexual Misconduct

Eric Bolling suspended from Fox News after

allegations of lewd texting

TV host accused of sending unsolicited photos of male genitalia to several co-workers, according to Huff Post

By Zulekha Nathoo, CBC News 

Fox News host Eric Bolling has been suspended from work pending an investigation into allegations he sent lewd photos to female co-workers. (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

Eric Bolling, host of the shows The Fox News Specialists and Cashin' In, has been suspended from the American cable network following a Huffington Post article alleging he sent lewd photos to co-workers.

According to a statement from Fox News to the CBC, an investigation into allegations against the television host is underway.

Report leads to suspension

A spokesperson for Fox News said Cashin In', a business analysis program which was taped Friday as usual, was pulled from airing once the media outlet "was made aware of the allegations" through the Huffington Post story. The show was replaced Saturday by a live half hour of news.

A story published Friday by Huffington Post alleges that Bolling, 54, "sent an unsolicited photo of male genitalia via text message" to three female colleagues several years ago. The article cites a dozen unnamed sources.

Bolling, a New York Times bestselling author, has held positions with Fox News Channel since 2008 as a host, conservative political commentator and financial analyst.

Network has faced multiple accusations in past year

Fox News, a right-leaning media outlet and the most-watched on American cable television, has faced a number of sexual harassment allegations recently.

Host Bill O'Reilly was fired earlier this year after a New York Times report revealed five women had received settlements totaling $13 million US after they alleged sexual harassment, prompting numerous advertisers to pull out of his highly rated talk show, The O'Reilly Factor.

Roger Ailes, who died in May at the age of 77, resigned from his post as head of Fox News amid accusations of sexual harassment.

Bolling 'does not believe' he sent texts

A lawyer for Bolling told the Huffington Post that his client "recalls no such inappropriate communications" and "does not believe he sent any such communications" when asked about the alleged texts.

Seriously? Are they his parts? It should be easy enough to determine if the texts are still available.

The law firm of Paul Weiss is conducting the investigation. According to Fox News, rotating substitute hosts will fill in for Bolling on Cashin' In and The Specialists, a nightly program which discusses top news stories through a multi-person panel.

The Specialists was created in May after Fox News was forced to revise its lineup to fill the void left by O'Reilly's ouster.

Fox has some serious cleaning up to do; it's culture stinks!

The Scourge of Child Sexual Abuse in Bangladesh

Dhaka Tribune 

A nation cannot call itself civilised with so many

child rapes on its conscience

Children are the most vulnerable group of people, and we are failing them badly.

The latest account is horrifying: Another 12-year-old girl was rescued after having suffered unspeakable sexual abuse at the hands of her employer.

It is hard to imagine a more despicable crime — the child was locked up for 17 days and raped repeatedly.

What’s worse is that sexual crimes against children are happening with alarming frequency.

The incident of Rajon, a young boy who was tied to a tree and tortured, though not sexual in nature, shook the nation and created awareness of child abuse, but not enough.

It is time to take a long hard look at endemic child sexual abuse.

Incidences of child rape have steadily increased in the country in the past few months.

And the official numbers don’t even tell a fraction of the whole story.

A nation cannot call itself civilised with so many child rapes on its conscience.

Dhaka, Bangladesh

The fight begins with making sure not a single perpetrator of child sexual abuse walks free — the law should dish out the harshest possible punishment for these individuals.

Secondly, children should be taken out of dangerous situations that make them vulnerable to victimisation, like manual labour or domestic work.

Indeed, this would require extensive changes in our country’s institutions, customs, and economic structure, but it is high time we made those changes.

It is the only way to break the cycle of abuse.

Those are all good ideas but they will only make a small dent in the increasing numbers of children being abused and sexually abused. Pedophiles and opportunistic perverts need to be processed quickly through court systems, but, if Bangladesh is like most countries, most of them will escape prison sentences or even being found guilty.

Successful prosecutions start with the police. Handling a sexually abused child should never be left to an ordinary policeman. Specially trained police women should handle these cases right from the start. 

Courts need to be far more sensitive to the fears and traumas of sexually abused children, and both police and judges need to understand that small children do not make up stuff like sexual abuse.

Children need to be educated about what is safe touch and unsafe touch. They need to be educated on who to tell and how to tell. And, the person they tell has to believe them or they might never speak of it again.