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um, so sad!. I was watching Oprah, , and sadly this five month old baby was gang raped in South Africa. The mother was a drug and alcohol addict. She took the five month old baby to a prostetue house. The baby was then gang raped. Someone found her and took her to the hospital. She had a colostomy and many inside damages. This is so nasty. that poor baby. Imagine her life. You know it has to be scary. I just hope the family that is trying to raise her never tells her. That is just so nasty. How could people sstoop to that level. Not only the men that raped her but the mom! The sad thing is the men that did it only got a couple of months. They say they can't really do much since the babies can't testify! um, how in the hell can they use that as an excuse? they also said they have twenty cases of this a weekend in south africa. I guess it is a myth that the men with aides if they have sex with a pure virgin baby, that they will be cured. Um waht the heck! sad, sad!
this is so nasty i think the men that did this to her should be tortured themselves. I shouldn't even be calling them men.
OMG! awwwa poor babys. how could anyone live with themselves after that? jeeze....
I know, how wrong can people get!
O.my.god! That is so sick! What is rong with this dam world, I'd like to no! A baby for god's sake!
Actually that's a rerun of one of the shows, but yeah, that's sick. I've read that there's actually this stupid myth that some people believe, that if a guy has HIV/AIDS, that having sex with a virgin can cure it. So I'm guessing that's partly where that comes from. Not saying it's OK in any way, but I'm just thinking that besides just being plain perverted, that that can also be a reason for people doing stupid things like that. Really really sad. *frowns*
Leilani
Well, the sad fact is, that in Africa, this is not a unique case. HIV and Aids is rife in Africa and yes, there is this belief that if you have sex with a virgin then it will cure you of the disease. Although in this case that idea kind of goes out the window because once one of them had raped this child she would no longer have been a virgin so the effort by the rest would have been in vane … well it would have anyway but if that was their intention it was pointless. And now they’ve probably infected an innocent child into the bargain but .. what the hell, she’ll just become another statistic. And the perpetrators of this crime will probably never be brought t justice – after all if every man who raped someone in Africa was arrested the majority of the black male population would be behind bars. And yes sorry, for those of you who think I’m a racist now, the reality is that this kind of behaviour is mainly indigenous to black African culture. And the reality also is that the rest of the world don’t really have a clue. We sit there and say “give anti retro viral drugs to Africa”, but it needs to go much further than that. We need to educate people that it’s not ok to have such a promiscuous lifestyle! That it’s not ok to have unprotected sex! That it is ok to use contraceptives such as condoms … and before anyone jumps on the bandwaggon of “the catholic church is to blame for that”, while that is true in part, it is also true that the way African culture works is that men are needed to be seen to be virile and therefore must father as many children as possible, so that is why they feel it is wrong to use contraception. When AIDS first became an issue in the 80’s, health organizations made a big effort to promote safe sex and the use of condoms. And the African leaders snubbed that idea and said “it’s the white man’s way to try and stop us having more children”. There is so so much more I could say here but to be honest there just isn’t the space to do it. The fact is, Africa is a far bigger problem than anyone who has never been there can ever realize. The likes of bob Geldoff sits there and wants the world to write off the national debts in Africa, but what good will that seriously do? Answer? None what so ever. Apart from to make the rest of the world feel good about themselves and think they’re doing something for the good of the poor people in Africa. The reality is though, that in order for the outside world to do any good, the countries of Africa need to fix their internal problems first, and I don’t see that happening any time soon. Sorry I’ve gone way off topic now.
A good thing is the baby doesn't have aids. they say the anti viral drugs wrorked since she got them ina timely matter. The baby was adopted by a loving family that went to the hospital to visit. They didn't have it in mind to do so, but when they saw her and how helpless she was they said they had to give her a good life. she is two now ans a happy healthy little girl. I think they shouldn't tell her of this when she gets older. what do you think? Smile- angel
Well the only positive aspect for this girl is that most likely she won't remember much if anything of what happened and may have a good chance of growing up somewhat unaffected by her horrendous experience and it's amazing that she did not contract hiv given the number of guys who raped her and the rate of HIV in SA.
Well, she may have. There are truely no words that can explain the sort of disgust I am feeling.
yeah, B that is my look on it1 I don't think I would tell her. I mean unless there are issues that need to be taken care of I mean health wise! Why tell her something that is going to haunt her the rest of her life? smile- angel
I think even if your only five months old, you may not remember exactly what happened, but you will feel the trauma from it as you grow up. You may not know why you inately feel a certain way about things, you may just think that there is something wrong with you for other reasons, but there will be visible signs of somthing having had happened (physically or mentally).
they did a programme about this. not about rape, but about what babies can remember. they took a group of 2 year olds, some of which had been born prematurely and had spent time in an ICU unit, and some which hadn't, and they took them to an ICU unit (there weren't any patients). the children who had spent time there as pre term babies were totally at ease there, walking around, looking at the machines, the flashing lights ... everything, but the ones that had never been there were very much daunted by the experience and wouldn't go in. I imagine that when this girl gets to an age where she becomes sexually mature, what has happened to her might have an impact, and might cause her to be afraid.
That was more of my thinking too.
How can anyone live knowing something like that? That's just downright horible!. A baby getting something like that dun surly can't remember that, but we all know, that the man upstairs is watching everything that happons! He will take this kind of matter into his own hands, and hopely send the people who did that to her strate to hell!
Oh I just love the human race. Thank fuck there are some decent people out there, so we're not all bad. But, my child, was hurt, I can't imagine a poor baby being hurt like that!
Sorry for the swearing, I'm just so pissed off right now, because so many children are being sexually abused, it makes me sick, sad, it's just, so aweful!
Some might tell me it's life, and to deal with it, but, facts don't faze me! What fazes me, is when my little girl comes to me and tells me she was hurt! I can assure you, there's no pain in the world like it!
Ok, I've said enough here!
That is too f.ckin awful to even talk about no wonder I'm becoming misanthropic
Well, yes, certainly. I'm sure this willhave scarred her for life and I do wonder whether it's better to haveit happen so early and have all these fears etc not knowing what they stem from or having it happen later where you actually remember or vaguely remember parts of it. Even children who are abused at an older age don't remember the details or sometimes mentally block out the act altogether but get panic attacks, anger and become very scared under similar situations or just stressful circumstances. My thinking was the younger the child perhaps the less impact, I certainly never said no impact and I agree, people who can abuse a child, let alone a 5 month old baby (well 5 months or 5 years doesn't really matter much to me) should be executed, to me it's worse than murder really.
well if it was my child i'd kill the bastards myself.
Aren't you then lowering yourself to their disgusting level, these feckers are so low, they could crawl beneath a snake and the bugger would be none the wiser...feck what am I saying!
possibly, but if it was your child? .. wouldn't you want to do something?
I'd take a f.ckin machine gun to the whole feckin lot of them!..as I've said before Africa is a festering cess pit so let em rot in it...
yeah, and what about the mom. she should be at blame here also. I mean If she wouldn't have had this baby at a prostitute house it may have never happened to her. What kind of mom would leave there child in this situation?
Goblin, again I can only shake my head at your unconcealed ignorance. An entire country of people, men and women. I will refrane from telling you what I think, because it isn't easy to talk to a man with two assholes. the smell, you know.
Ignorance eh? Well You have displayed more than I thought possible from 1 human being...I'm really impressed by your talent to spew forth a volley of projectile verbal vomit