I was browsing through an internet on today's news. I was shocked, amazed and nearly broke down into tears when I saw a headline in BBS online "Minor raped in Chuzergang, Sarpang ". I was more moved when the report stated that "The rapist could not be identified. The incident occurred on September 26 at around 8:30 pm." Immediately, many questions lingered in my mind. How safe our innocent girls are in Bhutan? Why are the laws protecting these girls are not enough to reduce the crime? Are the laws to liberal? Should't we do something about such inhuman acts and make them realize? What would happen to our small girls in the future?
We know that today it has happened in Sarpang. We may not know about the next day. It might be our sisters, relatives or our friend's cousin or daughter. Whoever it may be, they are our future generations representing the future Bhutan.
The crime rate on rape is really escalating every second, every minute and every hour, yet we tend to ignore. Many people know about such risks, but many parents especially in the urban areas do not take care of our young kids. We have developed a habit of crying over the split milk and never actually protect our children from such risks. We talk of parenting education, we talk about values and so on and so forth yet we tend to miss the smallest part of our responsibility to take care of our kids.
We know that the above mentioned case is not due to negligence but due to negligence, the rate is more likely to increase. Should we start worrying about the small girls roaming in the night in the Thimphu and other urban towns? or should we let them go and roam in the town like this, thinking at it is the time for roam and go at night untill they fell into the hands of prey?
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