The country of Rape & sexually abusing children

In Madhya Pradesh, nearly 2,500 rapes against minors were recorded in 2016.
India has a poor record of convicting those accused of sexually abusing children –  around 28 percent were convicted in 2016.
It is unbelievable, that in a country it could happen that children of 4 years old are raped, and that often this passes unpennalised.

In a 2008 study, Amnesty International called for a moratorium on the death penalty, citing the risks it poses to marginalised communities. 

A few years ago, New Delhi-based research group Project 39A examined death penalties handed out between 2000 and 2015 and found that less than five percent were upheld in the Supreme Court and almost 30 percent of death row prisoners were eventually acquitted.

Supreme Court judge Madan B Lokur claimed in 2016 that death row prisoners often failed to get quality representation, saying:

 “Legal aid in India is nothing but a joke.”

Kumar, the director-general of prosecution in Madhya Pradesh, however, said the speed of sentencing was a sign of efficiency.

“You might say that [conviction in] five days is fast but we had given all possible evidences,”

 he told Al Jazeera.

 “The high court has already confirmed [death sentences in] seven cases. Three to four cases were commuted to life imprisonment. But it never said the trials conducted were faulty.”

In 2018 twenty-one defendants were accused of sexually assaulting minors. Under pressure of the Western world India now tries to bring penalties very soon. Today for such case can be given a death penalties and this penalty can even be given within three days, seven days, 11 days and one month.

By the end of 2018, 426 prisoners were on death row.

Critics are worried over the rising use of the death penalty.

“If you look at the statistical data, most of those on the death row are extremely poor, with very little or no education and belong to India’s most marginalised groups,”

 said Ankita Sarkar, associate litigator at Project 39A, a New Delhi-based research group.

“The quality of legal representation that prisoners of death row receive is very often abysmal. These extremely short trials make for a terrible quality of justice especially in a system where fabrication of evidence and suppression of exculpatory evidence is rampant."

“India’s stand to retain the death penalty when the world is moving to abolish it thus ends up perpetuating a lot of prejudices and biases,”

 she added.

 “States like Madhya Pradesh, in this context, starts to look like the Texas of India.”

According to several of these individuals, the eagerness to dispense justice was a result of media clamour, legal reforms and a systemic push for the maximum punishment – often at the cost of due process.
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Madhya Pradesh: The Indian state with the most death row inmates

 

Jehovah Witnessess Making sure all records relating to child molestation are in harmony

Kraków, Poland; Anti-paedophilia logo from the National Revival of Poland (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Religious organisations, as well as schools, colleges and other institutions, have been told by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse – led by Judge Lowell Goddard – to keep hold of any documents which could be useful to the investigation.

How much should agendas and minutes of elders’ meetings being available to outsiders? at many congregations personal notes may be taken at elders’ meetings.

Referring to the congregation file an edict distributed to Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations around the UK ordered the destruction of “all agendas and minutes of elders’ meetings (other than business meeting minutes)”, “all personal notes taken at elders’ meetings (except those based on discussions of outlines from ‘the faithful and discreet slave’ and that do not mention any particular individual)” and “any other personal records, notes, or correspondence that refer to particular individuals”.

Hearing about this ti is also very strange that is written

 “make sure all records relating to child molestation are in harmony”

Read more about a former church elder in South Wales who has claimed the church has gone against the request made by Judge Lowell Goddard:

Jehovah's Witnesses 'ordered destruction' of notes which could have been used during child sexual abuse inquiry

“Why, when an organisation says it abhors child abuse, would it go and destroy documents that can assist in bringing a child abuser to justice?

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Condemnation of sexual grooming

In June 2013 a sermon condemning the sexual grooming of young girls was delivered Friday 28th, at 500 mosques across Britain after a series of trials in which men predominantly of South Asian origin were convicted.

The speech highlighted how the Koran condemns all forms of sexual indecency  and urged Muslims to protect children and vulnerable people in their  communities.

The move follows cases in Oxford, the central English town of Telford, and  Rochdale in northwest England, involving Asian men convicted of sexually  abusing girls, although police chiefs have stressed that grooming is not  restricted to a single ethnic or religious group.


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The sermon was organised by the not-for-profit group Together Against  Grooming (TAG) and was read out by imams in around 500 mosques nationwide.
The group said the sermon was supported by leading Muslim organisations  such as the Muslim Council of Britain, the Mosque and Imams National Advisory Board and the Islamic Society of Britain.
TAG spokesman Ansar Ali said: “We have been horrified by the details that  have emerged from recent court cases and as Muslims we feel a natural  responsibility to condemn and tackle this crime.”  
He said the issue was “much more complicated” than simply blaming Muslim  men.
“Sexual grooming and child abuse afflicts all sections of society and is  perpetrated by people of all ethnic groups.”  
The sermon urges anyone who sees an “evil action” to act or speak out.
It was written by Alyas Karmani, an imam and youth worker in Keighley, West  Yorkshire, a town with a large Muslim population.


> Go back in time and read: Muslim leaders in Britain condemn sexual grooming

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Move ahead with the commitment against child sex abuse says Pope Francis I

While on Monday fear of scandal prompted the cover-up of child sex abuse allegations within Australia's Catholic Church, the Vatican wants to make work of it.

Pope Francis I encouraged the Pontifical Gregorian University's Hans Zollner, head of the Centre for the Protection of Children, to "move ahead with the commitment against child sex abuse.”

English: Pope Benedict XVI (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The encouragement given by Francis for the anti-paedophilia efforts to continue, follows on from Benedict XVI’s work. Francis himself sent out a message during the Angelus prayer last 5 May, inviting us to work for the good of the most vulnerable and children.”
 
This is in continuity with Benedict XVI’s work in the field. Four months ago we presented him with the proceedings of the symposium they celebrated at the Gregorian University in February 2012. The symposium was attended by bishops’ conferences from all around the world, who discussed ways to prevent crimes against children.”

Australia’s top-ranking Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney, formerly archbishop of Melbourne, and one of eight cardinals selected by Pope Francis to advise him on reforming the Catholic Church’s opaque administration, was speaking on the final day of the probe.

According to Agence France Presse (AFP), last week Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart told the inquiry the church had been slow to act against paedophile priests and Pell admitted it had dealt with child sex abuse “very imperfectly”.
“I would agree that we’ve been slow to address the anguish of the victims and dealt with it very imperfectly,” he said.
The Catholic Church in Australia, as in other parts of the world, has endured a long-running controversy over its response to past abuses by priests.
Pell said the church had been aware of the emerging issue of sex abuse from the late 1980s, but had failed to comprehend the scale of the problem.
“If we’d been gossips, which we weren’t… we would have realised earlier just how widespread this business was,” he said.
“I don’t think many, if any, persons in the leadership of the Catholic Church knew what a horrendous widespread mess we were sitting on.”
Pell said the fact that paedophile priests had been moved to other parishes had had disastrous consequences.
“There’s no doubt about it that lives have been blighted,” he said. “There’s no doubt about it that these crimes have contributed to too many suicides.”
  

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