Sexual Offences: The Dreadful Plight of Young Women and Children

The sexual offender attracts young girls by using niceties such as sweets only to abuse them in a way that they can not understand. The emotional scars that are left for them to bear are too enormous for them to handle. In most cases, they are threatened by their attacker so as not to tell their parents and guardians about the attack.

Sex offenders are not new to that community in which they continuously rape youngsters. They rape again and again increasing their confidence each time they get away with their "perfect" rape crime. Day in day out, it seems to be inevitable that there will be another rape crime.

First, we need to understand what is causing the upsurge of rape especially of young girls; I am not talking about teenagers but those who are less than ten years old. Shocking; isn't it? But anyway, welcome to the real world where minors are defiled and the perpetrators get off scotch free. Even if the victim can point out the rapist, it is still his or her word against another's. If the rapist is respected in the community, then it becomes especially hard for him to be brought to book.

The reason that young girls are being raped by old men the age of their grand parents is that the older generation does not understand what rape is. Imagine growing up in a society where the word rape does not exist. There is simply no meaning of rape in the traditional context of some tribes. This argument is used to the advantage of the defendant in court.

There is little to no rehabilitation in the form of psychological treatment of defilers when they are incarcerated, on parole or serving their sentences. When they are in prison, they meet other defilers who encourage and aggravate each others urge to continue with rape by sharing their experiences. Prisons should introduce drastic reforms. First, the number of inmates should be reduced by introducing new punishments. Counseling is not a viable option when prisons are filled to the seams, it can only be done when rapists are singled out and treated.