Polish woman drugged, raped in Indian capital: police

[JI7]

Source: agence france presse

A Polish woman was drugged and raped as she traveled to the Indian capital with her two-year-daughter, police said Sunday, the latest in a string of sexual attacks on women in the country.

The driver drugged the woman at some point during the 150-kilometer (93-mile) journey and she was attacked after she passed out, Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat told AFP.

The woman woke up on a bench outside a railway station in New Delhi with her toddler crying by her side, the officer said, adding that details of the attack were still unknown.

“It is still a bit unclear, but prima facie, it seems she sat (in the taxi) voluntarily. But yes, thereafter, in the car he drugged her using some spray... medical report has confirmed rape,” he said.

The woman, a devotee of the Hindu deity Krishna, had been living in Mathura — believed to be the birthplace of Krishna — in Uttar Pradesh state for the past three years and worked in the cloth export business, he said.

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[Warpy]

1. Does datura grow in India?

Seems like a likely suspect.

[JI7]

2. are you referring to the poison used ?

[Warpy]

13. Yes, and it's not hard to make from the seed pods

Scary stuff. It's one of the really dangerous drugs. When you compare it to pot or even heroin, you start to realize just how stupid the drug laws are.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Isn't that what's known in the SW as Jimson Weed?

Nasty substance, from what I've heard.

[Warpy]

12. It's medically useful

and horrible when crooks figure out how to use it.

[pnwmom]

4. This growing violence might be related to the severe gender imbalance.

http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/indias-man-problem/

A much-cited 2002 study,“A Surplus of Men, a Deficit of Peace,” by Valerie M. Hudson and Andrea den Boer, contends that a gender imbalance in Asian countries, caused by a shortage of marriageable women, results in higher rates of crime, including rape, committed by young unmarried men.

“Internal instability is heightened in nations displaying exaggerated gender inequality, leading to an altered security calculus for the state,” the authors wrote in 2002, and reiterated in a book on the subject. Their conclusions are even more true today, Ms. Hudson said in an e-mail interview.

SNIP

If the study’s conclusions are correct, India’s problems with rape and other forms of violence against women – recently seen in the gang rape and subsequent death of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in Delhi, the gang rape of a high school student in Bihar state and the rape of a young woman in Punjab, who committed suicide afterward – may only get worse, given the trend in India’s demographics.

The authors adopted a Chinese term, guang gun-er (“bare branches”), for unmarried men from age 15 to their mid-30s who have limited prospects for employment. This group, which is larger in countries where sex selection is prevalent, usually “commits the preponderance of violence within a society,” according to the report.

SNIP

[JI7]

5. i don't think it would be a problem if the imbalance was natural

for example more boys just happened to be born.

but it's the anti girl/women mentality which results in aborting or killing if it's a girl. the same thing which values boys and treats them as worth more than girls.

[pnwmom]

6. It would never happen naturally to this extent. But the researcher

thinks that the problems would still occur, even if the imbalance was somehow natural. The problem is young, unhappy, unemployed men hanging out in groups -- regardless of how they got to be in that situation.

From the link in the OP:

Intermingling and aggregation are key to understanding “bare branches,” according to Ms. Hudson and Ms. den Boer’s study. These men hang out together, befriend each other, compete with each other and legitimize each others’ “risky choices.” When clumped together and left to their own devices, they become a tool of social disorder, the authors said:

In this “least common denominator” theory, the behavior of men in groups — most particularly young, single, low-status males — will not rise above the behavior of the worst-behaved individual. Together, they will take larger risks and be more violent than they otherwise would individually.

The sheer number of bare branches, coupled with the distinctive outcast subculture that binds them together and their lack of “stake” in the existing social order, predispose them to organized social banditry. The potential for intrasocietal violence is increased when society selects for bare branches, as certain Asian societies do. It is possible that this intrasocietal violence may have intersocietal consequences as well.

[cosmicone]

7. The problem is a fucked up police and legal system

For decades, police didn't take rape allegations seriously and the justice system handed down slaps on the wrist to brutal rapists.

The main reason therefore has been a lack of deterrence. Rape is not a crime of sex but of violence and trying to explain it with a gender imbalance is a bit simplistic.

Fortunately, as the whole country was in an uproar after the Delhi rape, new laws were enacted making it a crime for the police to ignore rape allegations and mandatory sentences for rapists. This intense awareness is also giving much wider and bolder exposure to every rape occurring in India. It is not that India has any more rapes than other countries but now every rape is under a microscope and widely publicized. India has a very strong feminist movement and it is being extremely vocal.

It will take a couple of years for the new measures to sink in and it will be better for the Indian society as a whole.

I personally think it will take capital punishment and life terms for a bunch of rapists, especially the former to make people think twice before committing rape.

[pnwmom]

8. The severe gender balance, coupled with the economic situation,

has resulted in groups of young, unemployed men hanging around together, causing trouble, because they have nothing better to do. Better police work and stricter laws won't be enough to solve the problem.

From the link at the OP:

Intermingling and aggregation are key to understanding “bare branches,” according to Ms. Hudson and Ms. den Boer’s study. These men hang out together, befriend each other, compete with each other and legitimize each others’ “risky choices.” When clumped together and left to their own devices, they become a tool of social disorder, the authors said:

In this “least common denominator” theory, the behavior of men in groups — most particularly young, single, low-status males — will not rise above the behavior of the worst-behaved individual. Together, they will take larger risks and be more violent than they otherwise would individually.

The sheer number of bare branches, coupled with the distinctive outcast subculture that binds them together and their lack of “stake” in the existing social order, predispose them to organized social banditry. The potential for intrasocietal violence is increased when society selects for bare branches, as certain Asian societies do. It is possible that this intrasocietal violence may have intersocietal consequences as well.

[valerief]

10. Don't "unmarried men from age 15 to their mid-30s who have limited prospects for employment"

always commit "the preponderance of violence within a society" anywhere, anytime? And that's not even counting warring.

[pnwmom]

11. Exactly. And the problem is there are many millions more of these youth in India

than in a society with a normal balance of men and women.

[Brigid]

9. I'll be going to expedia.com . . .

And booking that vacation to India now.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Take some aspirin with you ...

... white male republican candidates swear by it.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. Muslim countries and India...

are places women shouldn't travel too. Once India's tourism market goes down, maybe then the Neanderthals running the country will do something about it.

[blackspade]

16. No need to insult neanderthals!