About 15 years back a couple living in a third floor flat in Vasant Kunj in Delhi decided to go out for dinner keeping a 17 year old maid in charge of their 2 daughters, a 9 year old and a one year old. This was their first outing since the baby had been born a year earlier. Unknown to them the maid had been befriended by a young man, around 21 years old. When the couple went out she let the man into the flat whereupon he strangled the maid and the 9 year old girl to death, leaving the little baby alive, took all the money and gold he could find and fled. The neighbors had heard the little girl screaming but no one had gone to investigate. The distraught father blamed all the neighbors for not saving his little daughter. It was so heartbreaking that the man living in the flat below developed very high blood pressure with such severe nose bleed that he needed blood transfusion. Today's cities have become so impersonal that you may live next door to someone for 20 years and yet be just nodding acquaintance. Also it is impossible to know if the sound of a girl screaming is real or coming from a TV program. This may explain why 3 kidnapped girls were imprisoned and raped in a house in Cleveland, Ohio in the US for over a decade without anyone suspecting anything. Michelle Knight, 21 years old was kidnapped in 2002, Amanda Berry, 16 years old in 2004 and Georgina DeJesus, 14 years old in 2004. Their captor, Ariel Costa has been arrested and charged with kidnapping and rape, which rank along with murder as the most bestial crimes. The kidnapped victim has to suffer years of terror, torture and helplessness while the family suffers the agony of not knowing whether their loved one is alive or dead. The kidnapper sees himself with the power of life or death over his victim, to be beaten or chained as he pleases or, as with the Somali pirates, bartered for large amounts of cash. Similarly a rapist enjoys his absolute power over his victim, as an object to satisfy his carnal desires and then be discarded without any feeling for her destroyed dignity as a human being. So depraved are these men that they can rape a 5 year old child, insert objects into her undeveloped private parts and leave her for dead, as happened in Delhi recently. The last in this list of crimes of incomprehensible cruelty is acid attack. On 17 January Sergei Filin, the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow was walking home at night when a masked man threw sulphuric acid on his face, leaving him in extreme agony and damaging his eyes. Pavel Dmitrichenko, a dancer has confessed to the attack. He was angry because he thought that his girl friend was being neglected by Filin. Sadly, this is very common is India. If a woman refuses a man's advances he disfigures her for life by burning her face with acid. For her everyday becomes a nightmare. Murder, rape, kidnapping and acid attacks are the four most horrible crimes and must be punished without any pity. Hang them.
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