The recent increase in the cases of reported and unreported rape and sexual assaults on young girl’s and ladies have stolen sleeps from the eyes of concerned women all over the world. The funniest part is the cases of girls that were raped by law enforcement agents that were meant to protect them.
Here are the excerpts from some of the abused, survivors and witnesses:
A friend/client of mine was out with two other girls last weekend. They were meeting up with two more girls at Train Wreck in West Port Plaza. My friend walked in the bar with the two girls she was with, bought a draft beer from the bar and was standing there waiting for a table. She literally had two drinks of her beer and that is all she remembers. She woke up St. Luke's Hospital with high levels of Rohypnol in her blood. They had found her in the parking lot of the hospital. She was raped. The two other girls she was with that night were also drugged, taken from the bar, raped, and later found in the parking lot of St. Anthony's.
No word yet on the girls they were meeting up there. No one has heard from them.
From what the police have told her this is a common problem they are having in West Port. They have arrested one bartender from a different restaurant/bar associated with a different case.
© Ben Westhoff
Even though the police said the information might be false due to the fact that there has not been any complaint from anybody concerning the issue, I think its high time people; especially ladies know that the perpetrators of this act are employing another trick. It’s in form of a drug called Rohypnol. The news reaching me has it that apart from the purpose of making one unconscious, this drug causes some other damage to the body system. To avoid situations like this from happening, we need to:
- Avoid accepting drinks from people you don't know
- If given a bottle or can, make sure it's unopened
- Watch your drink being poured and don't leave it unattended
- If you think your drink tastes unusual, stop drinking it and throw it away
- Try as much as possible to be careful of where you buy your drinks
FAILED SEX ABUSE CASE
MANILA: A British man arrested for sexually abusing young girls in the Philippines has been freed after the case against him collapsed when three key witnesses disappeared, a Roman Catholic priest said yesterday.
Father Shay Cullen said judge Ofelia Pinto told him she would have to drop the charges against the accused, Barry Raymond Edwards, because the three young girls he allegedly raped had left the government shelter where they were staying and could not be located to testify.
Cullen, who runs a foundation against child exploitation, said that when he followed up the case last week, the judge "told me personally, she had to dismiss it because of the mysterious disappearance of the witness-complainants".
Edwards, 59, from southern Essex county in the UK, was arrested in Angeles City north of Manila in 2003 for allegedly having sex with a 14-year-old girl.
He was initially freed but later arrested again after three girls said they would file charges against him.
Edwards had previously said the charges were part of an extortion plot against him. Cullen said he would seek to have Edwards deported.© Gulf Daily News
Police are investigating a pair of overnight incidents in which a man broke into a home and raped a 14-year-old girl, and then tried breaking into another home, possibly with the same intent.
At about 4 a.m. Tuesday, North Miami police responded to a burglary call on Northwest 15th Avenue. According to police, a man used a chair to raise himself up to an unlocked window of the house, sneaked inside and raped a 14-year-old girl.
The victim's father said when he returned home after working the overnight shift and didn't find his daughter in her bedroom, he found her in the back yard, where she told him she was forced out of the house at gunpoint by a man who had sexually assaulted her© Google News search
Cases like this are very common in our vicinity where witnesses will turn down an appearance in court offer. I think there is more politics going on underground than we know of. Most of these
witnesses have been threaten and scared off the court by supporters of the perpetrators and some have sheepishly and callously accepted bribe in exchange for judgement. Either ways, I think the
best way to curb sexual attacks is to be careful in all our dealings and behaviour. We should not follow strangers out on a date and we should try as much as possible to tell our families or friends
our movements. Till a lasting solution is found to this problem, be your brother’s keeper.
