- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
They stopped the bike and took her to a desolate place by the roadside where they took turns to rape her
They stopped the bike and took her to a desolate place by the roadside where they took turns to rape her
On the one hand, there’s a lot of people in India.
On the other hand… Yikes.
Honestly, that’s shockingly low, like I don’t believe it at all low. Like, as grim as it sounds, I wish that were the true count.
Rape statistics are notoriously difficult to track because they require reporting and documentation, which often doesn’t happen for a variety of reasons, and additionally legal definitions vary globally. However, as a point of reference, in the US a sexual assault occurs almost every minute.
The US isn’t the greatest place for women by any stretch of the imagination, BUT, when you consider the cultural differences combined with having 4x the population, I’m shocked to see ~1/16 the total volume of assaults.
Not to reduce the impact sexual assault has every time it occurs, but I’m assuming that USA number isn’t cited as rape for a reason, especially since the source does use the word rape further down. Perhaps that explains the disparity?
There’s a ton more to it than that, for example:
Martial rape is not considered a crime in India
Rape is legally considered exclusively an act done by a man to a woman, therefore counts exclude raped committed against men
Finally due to stigma in the country and the judicial system often trying to shelter men who commit assault, cases go under-reported and under-prosecuted, lessening the count.
Yeah, that kind of sounds like my point. The us number is inflated by all the groping and flashing or whatever, and the India number is heavily deflated by only counting what gets reported and recorded as rape.