India takes major leap on rape cases

[someoneyouknow]

It took the rape and murder of an eight-year old girl for India to finally get its act together. India's Cabinet has passed an executive order to make the rape of a girl under 12 punishable by the death penalty as national outrage grows over sexual violence in the country.

The executive order also increased the minimum punishment for female rape from seven years in prison to 10 years, extendable up to life imprisonment, and introduced measures to speed up court proceedings in rape cases. Forensic rape kits will be provided to police stations and hospitals, and specialist labs will be set up exclusively to handle rape cases, the ministry said.

Following outcry over the 2012 gang rape and death of 23-year-old physiotherapy student Jyoti Singh, the central government passed legislative reforms, commonly known as the Nirbhaya Act. The act saw increased penalties for sexual violence, including extending the length of prison sentences and introducing the death penalty in certain cases.

Anger has also been mounting after a member of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was accused last week over the rape of a 16-year-old girl in northern Uttar Pradesh state.

A number of serious crimes in India carry the death penalty, but raping a child was not among them until now.

Nearly 19,000 cases were registered in India in 2016 - more than 50 each day.

The question now becomes, when will the U.S. adopt this punishment for such a heinous crime instead of blaming the victim [1], excusing the rapist[2], or saying rape is no big deal for the woman[3] and even claiming there is something called "legitimate rape"[4]?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/21/asia/india-death-penalty-child-rape-intl/index.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43850476

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/12/judge-apologizes-for-asking-accuser-in-rape-case-why-she-couldnt-keep-her-knees-together/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.880740551667

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/28/teacher-rape-montana/2722817/

[3] http://www.ibtimes.com/todd-akin-republican-senate-candidate-says-women-cant-get-pregnant-after-legitimate-rape-750937

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/us/politics/todd-akin-provokes-ire-with-legitimate-rape-comment.html

 

[phrodeau]

It's a cultural thing in the US. Has to do with "personal freedom."

 

[Boxlicker101]

It took the rape and murder of an eight-year old girl for India to finally get its act together. India's Cabinet has passed an executive order to make the rape of a girl under 12 punishable by the death penalty as national outrage grows over sexual violence in the country.

The executive order also increased the minimum punishment for female rape from seven years in prison to 10 years, extendable up to life imprisonment, and introduced measures to speed up court proceedings in rape cases. Forensic rape kits will be provided to police stations and hospitals, and specialist labs will be set up exclusively to handle rape cases, the ministry said.

Following outcry over the 2012 gang rape and death of 23-year-old physiotherapy student Jyoti Singh, the central government passed legislative reforms, commonly known as the Nirbhaya Act. The act saw increased penalties for sexual violence, including extending the length of prison sentences and introducing the death penalty in certain cases.

Anger has also been mounting after a member of the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was accused last week over the rape of a 16-year-old girl in northern Uttar Pradesh state.

A number of serious crimes in India carry the death penalty, but raping a child was not among them until now.

Nearly 19,000 cases were registered in India in 2016 - more than 50 each day.

The question now becomes, when will the U.S. adopt this punishment for such a heinous crime instead of blaming the victim [1], excusing the rapist[2], or saying rape is no big deal for the woman[3] and even claiming there is something called "legitimate rape"[4]?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/21/asia/india-death-penalty-child-rape-intl/index.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43850476

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/12/judge-apologizes-for-asking-accuser-in-rape-case-why-she-couldnt-keep-her-knees-together/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.880740551667

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/28/teacher-rape-montana/2722817/

[3] http://www.ibtimes.com/todd-akin-republican-senate-candidate-says-women-cant-get-pregnant-after-legitimate-rape-750937

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/us/politics/todd-akin-provokes-ire-with-legitimate-rape-comment.html

It is about time India got their shit together, but some Muslim nations tend to be even worse. But ten years is probably not severe enough, and why should rape of boys be any less heinous?

As for that "legitimate rape" thing, it's obvious the candidate made a poor choice of wording and meant "actual" or "genuine" or a legitimate claim of rape. as opposed to a woman making a phony claim, which does happen sometimes.

 

[KimGordon67]

It is about time India got their shit together, but some Muslim nations tend to be even worse. But ten years is probably not severe enough, and why should rape of boys be any less heinous?

As for that "legitimate rape" thing, it's obvious the candidate made a poor choice of wording and meant "actual" or "genuine" or a legitimate claim of rape. as opposed to a woman making a phony claim, which does happen sometimes.

Wow ... only three posts for someone to state that women make false rape claims. That's gotta be a new record.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Wow ... only three posts for someone to state that women make false rape claims. That's gotta be a new record.

Its not exactly a secret, you know, and I was not the one who brought up the subject.