2011-10-08 New York Times: Afrikassa raiskauksen uhri on usein pikkulapsi

[JT]

In This Rape Center, the Patient Was 3

NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF. FREETOWN, Sierra Leone

IN a rape treatment center here, I met a 3-year-old patient named Jessica, who was cuddling a teddy bear.

Jessica had seemed sick and was losing weight, but she wouldn't say what was wrong. Her mother took her to a clinic, and a doctor ferreted out the truth. She had been raped and was infected with gonorrhea.

As I stood in the rape center corridor, reeling from the encounter with Jessica, a 4-year-old girl was brought in for treatment. She, too, turned out to have been infected with a sexually transmitted disease in the course of a rape. Also in the center that day were a 10-year-old and a 12-year-old, along with older girls.

Sexual violence is a public health crisis in much of the world, and women and girls ages 15 to 44 are more likely to be maimed or killed by men than by malaria, cancer, war or traffic accidents combined, according to a 2005 study. Such violence remains a significant problem in the United States, but it's particularly prevalent in countries like Sierra Leone, Liberia or Congo that have endured civil war. The pattern is that after peace arrives, men stop shooting each other but continue to rape women and girls at staggering rates — and often at staggeringly young ages.

The International Rescue Committee, which runs the rape center here in Freetown, the nation's capital, says that 26 percent of the rape victims it treats are 11 years old or younger. Last month, the center said, a 10-month-old baby was brought in for treatment after a rape.

"The girls are being blamed," noted Amie Kandeh, a heroic American-educated Sierra Leonean who runs women's programs here for the International Rescue Committee (www.rescue.org). "If a girl is raped and she's above 5, then it's the way she was dressed. But we've had a girl of 2-and-a-half months who was raped. Was it the way her mom put her diaper on?"

That 2-and-a-half-month-old baby died of internal injuries sustained during the rape, said Ms. Kandeh.

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[Faidros.]

Olkaamme onnellisia siitä, että pahat tavat jäävät sinne Afrikkaan, tänne muuttaa vain hyviksiä!

[Nauris]

Aiheesta kiinnostuneille löytyy Googlella aika paljon tietoa varsinkin Etelä-Afrikassa tapahtuvista hirvittävistä seksuaalirikoksista. Täytyisi enemmän perehtyä kyseisen maan tilanteeseen, mutta luulenpa sen osittain selittyvän paremmilla tilastoinnilla verrattuna muihin Afrikan maihin. Samasta syystä, jos Suomessa tilastoidaan mahdollisimman hyvin viharikokset tai itsemurhat, niin ei sen perusteella voida vetää suuria vertailuja muihin maihin, koska on varmaan maita, joissa ei edes tunneta sanaa viharikos tai sitten itsemurha tilastoidaan tapaturmaksi mm. uskonnollisista syistä.

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