Posted on 05/03/2005 6:23:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The victim of a sensational rape committed two years ago on Tuesday spurned her attacker's offer to marry her to atone for his sins, saying she wanted to see him hanged.
Bhura, convicted by a court for brutally raping a former nurse of Shanti Mukund Hospital made the marriage proposal just as the court was to pronounce his sentence on Tuesday.
"I will not marry him. In fact, I want him to get the severest punishment. I want him to be hanged so that it will be a lesson for all rapists," the 22-year-old woman told a television news channel.
A court on Tuesday summoned the woman to elicit her view on Bhura's proposal to marry her, saying "he is now a reformed man".
Bhura, who raped and gouged out the woman's eye at the hospital in East Delhi two years ago, submitted his proposal to Additional Sessions Judge JM Malik a few minutes before the pronouncement of his sentence.
Malik had April 27 held Bhura guilty of the offence, saying that the prosecution had been able to prove the case beyond all reasonable doubt.
Bhura further said that since nobody would now marry the victim because of her stigmatisation after the shameful incident, he had chosen to marry her to re-establish her in society and to repent for his act.
Taking Bhura's proposal on record, the judge summoned the victim and her father on Wednesday to record their opinion on Bhura's proposal.
Social activists too reacted sharply to the court's decision to adjourn the proceedings without pronouncing the sentence.
"It is highly objectionable. The court has set a wrong precedent. How can they admit an application from the man? The court is not a marriage bureau," said Brinda Karat, a member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo and a leading rights activist.
Does anyone know if hanging is a possible sentence for the crime? I hope so.
I didn't know that Florida and India had a judge exchange program.
Some cultures have very strange ways of handling men who rape and their rape victims, old bible culture included since I do recall a bible story about this.
I think the guy should get life with regular conjugal visits from Elaina Bobbit, just to keep him well trimmed!
"'I will not marry him. In fact, I want him to get the severest punishment. I want him to be hanged so that it will be a lesson for all rapists,' the 22-year-old woman told a television news channel."
Sounds about right.
It would not surprise me if they made the gal marry him.
Well, that's not in the spirit of celebrating Diversity, is it?
Shame on her.
Guess it's an international thing for criminals to find some apathy for their victims IMMEDIATELY before sentencing.
I fail to see the difference here...
I fail to see the difference here...
Bad, bad, boy!
Lucky for her she was not Muslim or it would be her on the end of a rope.
Uhhhhhm, nevermind.
ROFLMAO.
The obvious difference is that hanging is quick and painless. And if you do it wrong, it won't take as long for the suffering to be over.
At least he knows that if he looses his job in India he can still immigrate to Florida or the Ninth Circuit and fit right into their crazy little niche.
Now THAT is gonna leave a mark!
I could see her being the Indian version of the Runaway Bride
Sheesh, I can't understand why she would reject his heartfelt marriage proposal.
It wouldn't have anything to do with a hanging ...
His next plan would be to try out for the Lakers or run as a Democrat abroad ...
Hang him by the eyeballs and kick him in the gonads 'til he blinks!
I wonder if the girl had a choice in marrying him or not. Very interesting. Thanks for the quote.
Oh, she's just playing hard-to-get.
While this would be a terrible solution in today's society, back then it was an effective punishment, as the rapist had ruined the girl's social value and severely limited her chances of marriage.
A good read on it here: "This is not a matter of having the rapist be one's loving partner, or cohort for further sexual relations."
By the way, what is a "sensational rape?"
"The victim of a sensational rape committed two years ago on Tuesday spurned her attacker's offer to marry her to atone for his sins, saying she wanted to see him hanged."
Good attitude!
Just mean, but FUNNY!
I don't think it does either. However, in a society that puts a premium on virginity, rape may prevent a woman from being married. Deut 22:28-29 give the girl an option to be provided for a husband. I doubt the obligation in such a situation was on the girl; rather, it was on the man.
"While this would be a terrible solution in today's society, back then it was an effective punishment"
For who? The only one really being punished is the victim. Duh...she gets raped and no telling how she was otherwised damaged in the assault, then gets stuck with a man she could never trust not to harm her again or kill her to get rid of her later. That's a terrible solution for the victim in any society.
LOLOL!!!!
First, I'm not sure the victim would have been "stuck." Do you have any evidence that the punishment would have been imposed against the victim's desire?
Secondly, it is punishment in the sense that it effectively made the man the slave to the woman for the rest of his life.
Thirdly, as I said, the woman was likely not to be married by anyone else because she was 'damaged' by the man, which was the very reason for the law's existence - to guarantee someone would be there to provide for her. Her parents wouldn't be there forever.
LOL!
Her response was, er, unprintable.
That's one of the most idiotic statements I've come across. You're kidding right? Or were you mixing a social problem(caste) with a religious one?
India's government and laws are secular, as far as I know.
Yeah, you're right, forgive me - the civilized people of India would never kill a rape victim or her family. I've never read about that. Don't know where I ever got the idea.
And they would never kill a young woman for not being a virgin, just like they would never bury the widow with the body of her husband. India's secular laws and courts don't always get to the scene of the crime on time.
A few pebbles not a mountain make.
By your logic, hearing about the sexual escapades of Christian priests with young boys the world-over, would you want me to believe Christianity endorses paedophilia? I assume no, and you will then get the picture.
I think public castration of the genitals would be an effective deterrent to rape.
I think that would be the rape of Dinah, whose assailant later went to her father saying that he loved her and wanted to marry her. Her father and brothers agreed, under the condition that all the men in their city be circumcised, which they were. Then, when all the men of the city were in a world of hurt, Dinah's brothers took their revenge and wiped them all out.
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land. When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force. He was deeply attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her. So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this young girl for a wife." Now Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter; but his sons were with his livestock in the field, so Jacob kept silent until they came in.
Then Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him. Now the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard {it;} and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done. But Hamor spoke with them, saying, "The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; please give her to him in marriage. "Intermarry with us; give your daughters to us and take our daughters for yourselves. "Thus you shall live with us, and the land shall be {open} before you; live and trade in it and acquire property in it." Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, "If I find favor in your sight, then I will give whatever you say to me. "Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl in marriage." But Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor with deceit, because he had defiled Dinah their sister. They said to them, "We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us. "Only on this {condition} will we consent to you: if you will become like us, in that every male of you be circumcised, then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters for ourselves, and we will live with you and become one people. "But if you will not listen to us to be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and go."
Now their words seemed reasonable to Hamor and Shechem, Hamor's son. The young man did not delay to do the thing, because he was delighted with Jacob's daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father. So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying, "These men are friendly with us; therefore let them live in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage, and give our daughters to them. "Only on this {condition} will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised. "Will not their livestock and their property and all their animals be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will live with us." All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.
Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob's sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, each took his sword and came upon the city unawares, and killed every male. They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah from Shechem's house, and went forth. Jacob's sons came upon the slain and looted the city, because they had defiled their sister. They took their flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field; and they captured and looted all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives, even all that {was} in the houses. Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have brought trouble on me by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and my men being few in number, they will gather together against me and attack me and I will be destroyed, I and my household." But they said, "Should he treat our sister as a harlot?" (Gen. 34)
"Now he was more respected than all the household of his father. So Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city and spoke to the men of their city, saying, ... "Only on this {condition} will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people: that every male among us be circumcised as they are circumcised."
Now you KNOW he had to have some serious influence! I mean, think about it. Can you imagine someone like Bubba taking the stage in a city and saying, "hey, now there's this hot babe I want to do and I know y'all love me and want to see me happy. There's just one little thing y'all gotta do for me. Go get the family jewels snipped." Yeah, right. Somehow I don't think there'd be a whole lot of enthusiasm for that plan.
LOL good grief.
I wrote a short story on that theme once. If I recall correctly, the seducer's bride payment is 50% higher than is normal -- and the family can collect the money and send the seducer on his way. The notion being that a bigger "hope chest" might compensate for the seducee's compromised status.
Until recently, we had the tradition of the "shotgun wedding" in this country.
LOL!..but very very sad. :)
Thank you!
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