Saturday, August 29, 2009

Justice Denied!

In the world of humans, there is something weird going on, unlike in any other animal world. Humans, who claim to have advanced thinking abilities, can prove to be worse than animals. In one of the most advanced countries, the US, heinous acts are perpetrated on the most innocent of the species, children, everyday.

Society goes back in civilization everytime a child is abducted, molested, and killed. The case of Jaycee Lee Duggard, luckily, does not have a sad ending like many other cases. However, she still will have a lot to recoup. She lost her childhood, youth and her formative years. She had been held like an animal (even pets get better treatment in this country) and continuously molested. A federal parolee could do that right in front of the authorities. And, nobody came to help the child for eighteen years!

Now, can our society give back to her what she lost? Can society make up what it could not do during those years? Is she the same, as she would have turned out to be, had she not been abducted?

Can we not provide a safer place for the children in this society? Shall we stop calling a society as “advanced” if, in that society, children are not safe?

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