Conversation at work:-
JH: I gave my hubby a call to pick me up at the bus stop last night.
Me: That’s a good idea since you left work pretty late.
JH: Yeah, there are already a few rape cases in my neighbourhood.
Me: Rape cases here?
JH: Yeah, it’s increasing in this city, which’s supposed to be safe. *sigh*
Chatting with my sis online:-
Sis: My friend told me that a teacher in her school was raped last week!
Me: Are you kidding?
Sis: No, I’m serious. Go check out our local newspaper online.
Me: …*busy browsing last week’s news archives in my homecountry’s newspaper*
Me: OMG, yeah, it seriously did happen. She’s gang raped!
Reading news online:-
This morning I was reading news on the Katrina aftermath. I felt gruesome when I read this: "There have also been outbreaks of shootings and carjacking and reports of RAPES." What?!! The calamity had already caused the zone in such a trail of devastation, how could these insane sex maniacs still happily raping the poor victims who are struggling for food, water and shelter?
I was looking up at the statistics on rape crimes from US Department of Justice.
Persons age 12 or older experienced an average annual 140,990 completed rapes, 109,230 attempted rapes, and 152,680 completed and attempted sexual assaults between 1992 and 2000, according to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS).
Most rapes and sexual assaults were committed against females: 94% of all completed rapes, 91% of attempted rapes, and 89% of all completed and attempted sexual assaults just from 1992 to 2000.
The 2004 statistics indicated that there are conservatively over 650,000 rapes per year in the United States.
This is really serious as the stats only estimated the cases reported in the US. There are a lot more unreported raping cases happening each day in other nations.
I really don’t understand. Is this world still considered as a civilised place to live? We are approaching the 21st century and many of its people are well-educated. But unfortunately, crime rates are shockingly increasing, especially raping/sexual assault. It seems like there are more people not only cracking up but enjoy harming and traumatizing others. I can understand we human beings have desires. But it doesn’t mean you can force (physical, threats, psychological, coercion, and manipulation) on someone to be your victim(s) just for your own selfish “fun” and leaving the poor victims to bear the harrowing life-long memories!!
I’m really concerned and worried about this issue. We, especially us females don’t have so much of a freedom to live happily and safely in every corner of this world because of the existence of these psychopaths! And we consider ourselves staying in a civilized world? What a joke!
We really have to do something in protecting our people and ourselves. It’ll be a long term and cooperative effort from all individuals in the entire society. Meanwhile, we as the potential victims have to rely on ourselves against being the next victim of the tragedy. Here are some useful rape protective measures and rape prevention tips. Please have a serious read on these 2 links and remember to be on guard always. Take care.
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