Another child, a 3-year-old, was raped yesterday by a worker in Delhi. India has to face the fact like many other countries that it is a host to pedophiles. That men who assault children are not limited to Law and Order: Special Victims Unit  on TV or live only in America and the UK.That is a cinematic lie we have conveniently espoused and it has blinded us into believing it is not in our culutre. You think it is in the American culture? How stupid can you be?

No, it is not a western problem, and nor are we Indians above the fact that in 1.2 billion people there would be a million perverts.

Unless there is a recognition of this crime as a category in itself and action taken by creating a pyramid system where sexual abuse of a minor is seen as an automatic death sentence or life or even castration (not primitive, so don’t get all pious on me) and fast tracked this is going to keep happening.

In the west, they are more practical. Sexual offenders are identified as such outside their residences. The police know of such people. Those in the kiddie porn business are tracked by special police and children are made that much safer because of it. 

In places like India and most of Asia and Africa, the damn ostrich is still stuck in the sand. The government, be it central or state, does not recognise this sexual proclivity and unless we wake up and say, yes, it is existing and it has to be recognised before we can control it there is no reduction in the risk.

Stop with the protests. Stop with the displays of disgust. They resolve nothing. Get real. The person next doors who gives your kids sweets could be a pedophile. That nice ‘uncle’ who chucks your child under the chin is a pedophile. The elderly gentleman, the young man with good manners, they could be pedophiles. 

There is no age, no wealth factor, so let’s not fool ourselves that only the poor have this beastly habit... the rich and the educated are not exempt. Nor are relatives.

Unless the authorities wake up to the reality and start protecting children through a new set of laws that ID pedophilia, keep reading those stories and feeling sick to the stomach.

This is terrorism at its very worst.