INDIA: BJP MP Said Rape Of Grown-Up Girls Understandable But If Someone Does This To An Infant, It Is A Heinous Crime. WTH?! Rape In Itself Is A Heinous Crime No Matter Age Of Female Or Male.

WTH?! Rape in itself is a heinous crime. It doesn't matter if it is done to an elderly, middle age, adolescent or infant female or even if it is done to a male! Rape is a gross violation of a person's basic human right to autonomy. The unsafe environment for women in India will not be cured until you rid yourselves of elected officials that have no value for women. For this official to "understand" how one can rape an adult tells me that he doesn't "understand" the horror of rape and what rape does to a woman. This official is "sympathizing" with the rapist. Now that is pretty telling and twisted if you ask me!

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The Times of India

BJP MP says rape of grown-up women understandable, lands in trouble

written by Staff

Friday January 11, 2013

RAIPUR: Two days after a Chhattisgarh minister blamed "planetary influence" for sudden spurt in sexual crimes, a senior BJP MP and former Union ministerRamesh Bais kicked up a controversy saying, "One can understand rape of an adult; but rape of a minor is a heinous crime and those committing such crime ought to be hanged."

In Hindi, Bais was quoted as saying, "Barabari ya bade logo ke sath balatkar samajh me ata hai, lekin nabalig bacchiyon ke sath is tarah ka jaghanya apradh karma, inko to phaansi par latka dena chahiye." He had to be told that rape, under no circumstances, can be defended, justified, or explained.

State Congress spokesman Shailesh Nitin Trivedi said, "Such remarks are unacceptable as these lower the dignity of women. We condemn the statement and demand a public apology from the BJP MP"

The controversial remarks came when Bais, who was once the BJP's chief whip in the Lok Sabha, was talking to a few reporters about the on-going row over the Kanker incident in which minor tribal inmates of a girls' hostel, being run by the state's tribal welfare department, were sexually exploited and abused by a contract teacher and a watchman for months.

Stressing that rape of minors was the most heinous crime, Bais said most incidents like the one in Kanker go unreported but the government has taken prompt action against the accused. "But will termination or suspension of employees help bring back honour of the victims?" he asked, adding that all the accused should get stringent punishment. "Kanker incident has brought shame to the state," Bais concluded.