Of 706 Rape Cases Reported In Delhi In 2012, Only 1 Resulted In Conviction

[Tx4obama]

Of 706 Rape Cases Reported In Delhi In 2012, Only 1 Resulted In Conviction

The case of a woman gang-raped on a bus in New Delhi on Dec. 16, 2012, resulted in convictions for the perpetrators; but for most instances of reported rape in India's capital, the case never gets that far.

As The Guardian reports, of the 706 recorded rapes in Delhi in 2012, only the widely reported Dec. 16 case saw a conviction. Since that brutal assault last year, the number of reported rapes in Delhi has nearly doubled.

The lack of convictions illustrates a sad state of affairs for victims of sexual assault in the region. While rape cases may be reported -- perhaps in higher numbers this year because more women are coming forward -- convictions are few and far between.

Of the 635 rapes reported to Delhi police in 2011, there was only one conviction despite a high number of arrests, the Press Trust of India reports.

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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/10/delhi-rape-one-conviction-706-cases-2012_n_4419374.html

[BainsBane]

1. Awful

I wish some weren't so determined to reduce Sweden and the US to that same low conviction rate, though the US's is already really shitty, about 3%.

[icymist]

2. AIB It's your fault

[Tx4obama]

3. Limbaugh Solves 'Rape Culture': Ask Women's Breasts to 'Stop Staring at My Eyes'

Limbaugh Solves ‘Rape Culture’: Ask Women’s Breasts to ‘Stop Staring at My Eyes’

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/limbaugh-solves-rape-culture-ask-womens-breasts-to-stop-staring-at-my-eyes/

[In_The_Wind]

5. I saw that somewhere.

[JI7]

4. in India ,Rape is the Victim's Fault

she was raped because she ate the wrong kind of food ???

< To talk of rape with so many of Delhi’s men is to discover a chasm between the world of their minds, flush with medieval ideas of womankind, and the world of the modernizing megacity in which they find themselves. In fact, many men — including those at the barber stall that day — attribute the rape problem to vertiginous social change that has created new temptations at a faster rate than the new habits to cope with them.

The barber put it simply: Rape isn’t a man’s fault. “It’s the fault of the times,” he said.

He said that rape was the result of poor choices made by women. “Wearing the wrong kind of clothes, eating the wrong kind of food, going to the wrong kind of places,” he said.

It is a familiar notion, here and elsewhere, that women entrance men into rape by wearing particularly cute skirts. Men will be men, the argument goes, which apparently means that men will be rapists. The barber gave a metaphor: “Where there’s a candle and a fire together, the candle will melt.” He added: “The fire is always the girl. The candle is the boy.” >

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/world/asia/india-rape.html?_r=0