Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Indian court rules that groping without removing clothes is not sexual assault
According to Cambridge Dictionary, groping is an act to touch someone's body for sexual pleasure, usually when the person does not like it. Recently, Bombay High Court ruled that grouping a 12-year-old girl through her clothing does NOT constitute sexual assault even though the accused man brought the girl to his house and tried to remove her underwear. The 39-year-old defendant was convicted of molestation and sentenced to one year in prison. The judge stated that the punishment for an offense shall be proportionate to the seriousness of the crime. Are there clear guidelines for the seriousness of sexual assaults by the situation, degree, and age? Since sexual assault is a serious problem in India, where there are huge numbers of reported and unreported sexual crimes every hour. Activists are blaming the justice system is inadequate to deal with and reduce sexual crimes against women and girls. Is it just the judicial to blame for this deep-rooted Indi’s sexual violence?
Read the article and think about what the seriousness of the crime means to a 12-year-old girl.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/26/asia/india-sexual-assault-intl-hnk/index.html
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