My heart was bleeding. As a mother myself, I can not even beging to imagine the trauma of your child being raped, let alone die as a result. And yet I ask, are we naive as women (as in the case of the grand mother who sent the little girl to give keys to the men) to trust the men around us? But, then again, what can you do when the very same village of people around you do harm to the child they are supposed to protect? Who can we trust, if our own brothers, uncles, spouses are the ones inflicting pain on our children? Where are our men when our children are being brutally assaulted?
What will become of our nation when its future mothers are caused such damage at an early age? Have we ever stopped to think of what becomes of the child who survives rape?
This week thursday, will mark Human Rights Day in South Africa and 9 other countries. And yet, I wonder, what are human rights? where do they exist, cause they don't exist in my homeland, where children are being raped. Not that the rae of adult women and elderly is correct, but really, how low can we go to even assault a little child with no imagination of what sex or sexual intercouse is? What is the intention even? Is it to hurt the parents, to prove one's manhood, what, what, WHAT?????
Hurting and mind-blogged,
Lady B!
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