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Butterfly

" When 12-year-old kiran waved goodbye to her mother as she left for school she had no idea it would be the last time they saw each other. On the way to school, little Kiran was kidnapped by bounty hunters who work for the prostitution crime gangs . When she didnt arrive home from school her mother and the local towns people knew what had happened. In the last few months several girls had already gone missing. Kiran's mother was warned not to go searching for her daughter, but she went anyway. She then made the mistake of going to the police, who are on the payroll of the prostitution gangs. They turned her over to the gangs who tortured and killed her. Her dead body was then dumped in the main street of her province as a warning to others. Little Kiran was locked in a room no bigger then a toilet. Here she was chained to a wall and fed only a bowl of rice a day. She was watched over by armed security gaurds who carried batons , electric prods and shotguns. Attack gaurd dogs were also used. She was kept in a building where little Kiran was forced to service up to 20 customers a day. If she didnt meet her quota she was bashed and often tortured with electric shock.
Kiran was eventually rescued by the Child rescue team but then not every little girl dragged into prostitution is that lucky."
As I put the newspaper down, I was forced to think. What has gone wrong with our society? What has led man to such barbaric activities? Why is it that man who God created in His own image has today become worse than a carnivorous animal?
The tale of the girl child in India is one of immense tragedy. One estimate indicates that 50-60 per cent of crimes against girls and women involve girls between 2 and 16 years of age. Little girls are bought and sold openly. Those they can not buy, they rape and those who report, they kill. Our morals, our ethics, our duties, everything has been tampered with. We turn blind eyes to such incidents hapening around us... "police ke chakkar mein kon parre" and one by one, bit by bit, these innocent tender butterflies are crushed and nothing is done about it.
News of rapes, prostitution, child abuse, etc has become so common now that the society has even stopped turning its head towards it but, is this the future we want to give our children? No! Then why is it that such incidents dont shake us up to put our foot down and say "No! There will never be such a 'Kiran' again!
I feel that we ourselves are the reason why this ill has taken such a monsterous form. If we hadnt turned a blind eye to the neighbour we heard had raped his daughter, the poor farmer who had sold his orphan niece because he could not repay the loan, the drunk 'thanedar' who had got his way with the local dhobi's daughter, and many such filthy monsters we came across with sometime or the other.
Today, because of this blind eye, things have become from bad to worse. Now this bussiness of flesh has crossed all limits. Little girls are kidnapped, gang raped, sold as commodities, and bought as properties. Inspite of the media bringing this picture of the society in light, nothing is ever done. If the abuser is influential, he twists the whole case, if hes powerful, the whole family of the victim is surpressed and if hes rich, his crime is hidden under a bundle of notes. Thus, the abused becomes a permanent victim and the abuser gets away with little or no punishment...and the flesh eating beast is left in the open.... to hunt again !!

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