ON SEX FRONT

                                               

Of late, there has been an upsurge in sex related crimes. It is not true to admit that it is a new development. Sex is as old as man himself and so crimes concerning it is also equally old.However we did not hear so much about it in the past. This is so because of the wider and quick communication, education and boldness of the fairsex to challenge illegality in the game. Particularly in India, it caught added momentum after the Nirbhaya case of Dec 16, 2012. Since then most of the cases have been challenged, reported to police and the culprits were/are sentenced to required punishments. There was a committee to suggest some stringer measures to deter the culprits. The people, all over the world are in favour of quick and more stringent punishment to cause fear in the sex related criminals.

In this connection, a recent law of Macedonia (Greece) has surprised the society. The local parliament passed a law stressing to castrate a rapist if the crime is repeated. That means that the individual, for the first such crime will be tried under existing law. But if he repeats the crime, he will be castrated. Even though it is a harsh punishment, most of the Macedonians demand a still sterner punishment. Perhaps they feel that either the capital punishment or the life imprisonment would be more justified. In their logic it might have the implication that even a castrated criminal, if free, may commit more such nuisances and harass the society.

In this connection, the Vatican city of the Pope of Roman Catholic church has come under a bitter scanner. The Human Rights Watch Committee, an agency of the UNO has taken an objectionable notice of the sex abuses there. It has reports that the celibate fathers indulge in molestation, rape and humiliation of the womenfolk in the city including rampant incidents of child abuses. The committee is exercised over the incidents being suppressed, and the culprits running scot free. The committee has put its pressure on the church authorities to take appropriate steps to prevent such crimes and arrange quick judicial trials of the criminals to face deterring punishments. The report has spread like a wild fire in the western world, as the general people never thought that such an august religious centre, enjoying worldwide network and appeal, is suffering from this despicable abuse.