On Friday, a 42 year old man was sentenced to 44 months jail and 12 strokes of cane for sexually abusing his step daughter. He was found guilty of 7 charges after a five day trial.
2007, was when the man first molested his daughter by touching her chest. The girl was only 12 years old. The acts of sexual abuse escalated in 2009: making the girl performed a sexual act on him without her consent.
During mitigation, the man claimed to be untiring in his efforts to raise the children in the family. His lawyer, S K Kumar added on, saying that the man was a good man who fully devotes himself to his loved ones. After the man was sentenced, Mr Kumar told the court the man would be appealing against his conviction and sentence.
The writer has no point of view, but I would like to say that I do not agree with what the lawyer’s point of view. Although the man is “untiring in his efforts to raise the children in the family”, the lawyer had said that the man is a “good man who had given himself fully to his loved ones.” I do not however agree because if he was to love his family, he would not have done such as thing.
This article appealed to me because recently there had been a lot of such cases, fathers sexually abusing their daughters and therefore, I want to report about these kinds of case.
I would like to ask the writer to talk more about the girl’s birth mother. Because there is not much information regarding the mother, how she reacted against this incident, what did she do when she found out about this
If I am in charge, I would not let him appeal against his conviction, sexually abuse-er should spend his time to reflect on his action in jail, one should be responsible for his own actions. I would also put up advertisements to raise awareness of sexual abuse. To let those children know that “being touched” by ‘opposite sex’ is deemed to be being sexually abused. Otherwise, the children would not know that they are sexually abused.
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