Daily Lessons from Life 28 December 2013 - Woman gang-raped on Christmas Eve in India

"Woman gang-raped on Christmas Eve in India - AFP 28 December 2013

NEW DELHI: A 20-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped on Christmas Eve in south India, media reports said on Friday, the latest in a string of sexual attacks reported in the country.

The reports of the latest assault came two days before India was due to mark the first anniversary of the death of a student who was gang-raped on a bus in an attack that shocked the nation.

The woman who was assaulted on Christmas Eve told police she was abducted by three men while sightseeing with friends in Karaikal, a port city in Puducherry, the Times of India newspaper and TV networks reported.

One of the men raped her at a secluded spot before freeing her, the Times said. She called for help but then another group of seven men attacked her as she was being escorted to a safe place, the paper said. Six of the men raped her, it added.

The Times of India said police had registered preliminary cases of abduction, gang-rape and criminal intimidation against the accused.

The issue of sex crimes in India has received widespread attention since last year's gang rape of the 23-year-old student in New Delhi.

The physiotherapy student died on December 29, nearly two weeks after being attacked by a gang of six men on a moving bus as she returned home from the cinema with a male companion.

The brutality of the attack and her subsequent death shook the country and shone a global spotlight on India's widespread mistreatment of women.

The attack also prompted the Indian parliament to pass tougher laws against rapists and other sex-crime offenders.

But a string of other sex attacks, including against foreign tourists and a photojournalist in Mumbai this year, has highlighted the continuing dangers facing women in India."

Honestly, I am SICKED of reading such NEWS. If I am SICKED, I am SURE, Indians in India MUST BE VERY VERY SICKED about such crimes against their daughters and mothers!!

Lessons for me are:

1. is this CUSTOM and CULTURALLY acceptable to TREAT women in this MANNER? I hope NOT. No. I KNOW it CANNOT BE. Not with one of the oldest civilization in the history of mankind! Yes?;

2. is this ANOTHER display of MOB MENTALITY? Are these men SICKED? They are IF they have committed the barbaric crime that had been accused of. SICKED not as in mentally unsound as they would be too easy for them to claim as an excuse. SICKED as a human being does not attack the female like animals! There can be NO EXCUSES for such a crime. Punishment must be severe and public!;

3. with some many headlines on the subject of RAPE on Indian women in India, I WONDER if anything had changed? What would the fathers teach their sones? What would the fathers tell their daughters? How can the women protect themselves? How long MUST such crimes be in the PUBLIC LIMELIGHTS before the mindset will begin to change for the better? That women must be respected, cherished and loved. That they are JUST as intelligent and capable as men. That only when both genders are in harmony will mankind continue to exist!