The Silent Murderer

News breaks through out the 365 days all over the world. How many headlines are missed without having the line “Raped” or “Molested” or “Sexually Harassed”? And how many doesn’t appear, never ever in any source? It’s for sure not because it doesn’t happen in every passing second. Then why is it unknown?

I’ve had my share of experiences in such incidents – let me correct it “I have had my share of having shared such experiences by the victims”. There are cases where a member within your family has molested you. Your tuition teacher tried to get into a scene with you.  The son of your parent’s friend tries to hit on you, while you were living with them for your higher studies. Your doctor tries to harass you. What more could it be huh? I have even seen a case where the daughter was molested by her own father. How humane can he be?

When you are subjected to such an incident, why do you hesitate to tell anyone? Share with your parents or report to the authorities or even fight it back. Fear isn’t it?

How can we overcome this fear? How can we let our daughters and sisters (even sons and brothers) to share it with us? What is our role in getting our family protected by those ‘animals’?

My best bet is communication and trust. We need to properly communicate with our children and make them aware of these types of incidents. We need to build in their confidence to enable them to share their life openly with us. We need to have a closer look at the people, who happen to be in within ourselves. How much ‘should’ we trust them? Do we let our son / daughter get their higher studies completed at the home of a friend, where we do not know who lives / who visits? Do we let our children go for sleepovers to our friends’ houses? Do we need to open our eyes wide enough to see whether the daughter’s grand father or uncle has an ‘irregular’ closeness towards her?

I’m sure all of you have heard from the news some time back that a man killed his father-in-law. After hearing the complete story, I wasn’t surprised. The bastard was molesting his very own grand daughter. He was continuously stabbed on the holy month of Ramadan and the man didn’t have any regrets as he counts the rest of his life behind bars. His life couldn’t be darker I guess? Won’t this be your reaction? As for me, I don’t know what I would do if such a thing happened to a family member of mine. But I’m sure I wouldn’t be satiated until his filthy soul gets burnt in hell till there’s no existence to it as it only belonged to none other than a silent murderer.