Arbitrary Cidin said:
I just read the article. It said that three 10 year olds from his school were also charged with rape. Maybe a teacher is to blame for twisted influences? I mean rapes have become 6.5 times as frequent in the last 30 years in India, and with such an abundance of people, it would be easy for a twisted rapist to slide through the schools employee screening. I mean, how would the boy even think to take her to the bathroom like that? I mean, they weren't even able to prove it through a DNA test because he doesn't produce semen yet, so why did he do that? He even beat her when she resisted, so he obviously had something in his mind that it was either important or rewarding for him to commit the act. Even if he's crazy, kids at his age who are either sociopaths, serial killers, etc. have tendencies more along the line of collecting dead animals/ torturing small animals. Sexual aggression is unheard of until at least puberty. The more important question here is what was his motive and where did he get it?
That's a good point raised.
3 other kids his age from the school? Sounds like something fishy is going on at that school. My initial view was to blame the parents (since, though the boy beat the girl, I am not convinced he knew what he was doing - either copying or carrying out instructions), but this makes me want to blame the school.
I like the way people yell "castration!" and "kill the kid" as a response. How is that justice? The girl, though emotionally damaged for life, still lives - and I imagine that, once the boy gets an understanding of what he has done and how he will be labelled for the rest of his life, will be equally damaged too. Castration isn't the answer because humanity (should have) moved passed this barbarism a long time ago. What right do
you have to mutilate another human being because "it's wrong for him to have hurt someone else"? Does there not appear to be a hypocrisy behind that statement? Though you can hide behind the front of "JUSTICE" and a legal system, you are still humans baying for another human's blood - which is, at the least, "morally wrong" for a modern, developed society.
The boy would have been aware of his actions - passed the age of...6 I believe, children are regarded to have "self-awareness". Though I do not think he knows what he did was wrong - due to children not understanding what they are doing is wrong or the consequences thereof, cannot be tried until roughly 14 (depends on your region's laws).
This is what leads me to believe there is outside influence. Either from parents or the school, this boy has picked up an understanding that this act is either something he's seen and the victim puts up with or that it's a perfectly natural thing. Or that he's being forced to do it. Any of these could point to either school or parenting, but I really would hasten to blame the child himself.
Also I would question whether the boy is actually responsible. We know the two play together regularly and this has never happened before. We know the extent of the girls injuries (bruising and bleeding of the genitalia). We are told the children were left alone together (is this true? It is highly irresponsible to leave two children of such age alone, perhaps there is a 3rd adult who was present but is being protected by the parents?). We know there is no DNA test being done since the boy is unable to ejaculate (which I think is a bad call, because it is likely that there would be some epithelial or hair transfer from any physical contact...though some of this may have degraded if it is some time between the incident and the reporting of the crime). Would a young boy be capable of inflicting such injuries as the girl has sustained? Would he be emotionally capable of beating a friend he had grown up with?
Basically, there is no doubt the girl was assaulted sexually. From the limited information, this seems highly out-of-character for the child. From the point of view of what we know about child psychology this seems extremely odd for such a young boy to do. From the report it seems that there have been similar events in the area/school indicative of an outside influence.
Therefore I think it would be wise to hold-your-horses on the "smash his bollocks" and "zap the bastard" calls.
Maybe the child *did* do it, maybe he didn't. Even if he did there should be an investigation into his upbringing - focusing on the parents and the school where other pupils have committed sexual assaults.
. She got raped, and that's the criminal part of this, the one we need to use eye for an eye for.