Oral Sex with a minor is not an aggravated sexual assault!

Yes! You read it right. This law says that “putting a penis in a minor’s mouth does not fall in the category of aggravated sexual assault!” It comes into the category of penetrative sexual assault, which is punishable under Section 4 of the POCSO Act. The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Wednesday appealed to the UP chief secretary to file an urgent appeal on behalf of the State against the Allahabad High Court judgment which had reduced the sentence of a convict from 10 years to 7 years in the case of a sexual assault of a minor.

The crime has taken place with a 10 years old minor in Uttar Pradesh and the accused got his sentence reduced just because it was an oral sexual assault which is not “much of an offence”. The convicted man sexually assaulted a 10-year-old boy. The act of crime came to light when the minor child was questioned about Rs 20 found with the child. Upon being asked, the boy narrated the incident, post which the family had approached the police. Reference.

This news has become an eye-opener for all of us. For the criminals, it is a free ticket to molest or assault someone orally as they will know that sooner or later they will be saved by the law itself! This news takes away all the leftover fear within these criminals as they will now know it is not a harsh crime. The entire minority is in threat with the fact that someone can just easily ask them to open their mouth and jerk it off. Even if they report it, the law will be there to save the criminal’s ass.

Today when I am writing this post, it has been exact 2 years of Doctor Priyanka Reddy’s case, which took place in another part of the country(in Hyderabad). It was so brutal that it still shake me from the core when I remember the news, the only little piece of peace was those rapists who were killed in an encounter. Personally, I believe that every assaulter deserves pain to death. They don’t deserve to live a peaceful life with punishment reduced. They should not even have the right to have a lawyer to defend their case because assaulting someone no matter how you do it, is unacceptable.

I could bet my life on it that in my country almost all of the minors has been a victim of sexual assault. I have spoken to a lot of friends about it and I was not in shock when I heard how they all were molested or assaulted by someone they knew as family or friends. And it is no shocker to see them breaking down while talking about it. Those acts create a permanent trauma that stays within us, forever. I am no exception to it. When I was just a kid, when I did not even know what sex or sexual assault is all about when I thought this is probably an act that all the older does, I have been a victim of it and of course back then most of us do not even complain about it to our parents. We get scared, shit scared, so much that we do not wish to come across those so-called relative/family friends ever again. We try to hide when we see them, but we do not talk about it to anyone. Most of these cases go unreported.

Hence when such crimes are being reported the authorities should be more strict about it, the punishment should be way stricter, because this leaves permanent damage inside the kid, that remains forever. When I saw the news I was awestruck, I went into flashbacks about things that happened to me as a kid that I still am not comfortable talking about. And now it seems more pointless to talk about it as the law is not helpful enough.

I wonder where these people get such a sick mentality! I guess I have a couple of answers with me. Lack of sex education and easy access to violent porn top the list. These culprits feel it is okay to shove the dick up anywhere and have their fantasy fulfilled by any means. They think it is absolutely okay to pinch a girl boobs while she is just growing up. Their monstrous hunger for sex makes them so sick that they do not even feel how much pain a girl goes through when they do that. They think it is absolutely okay to open the zip up and put the penis in a kid’s mouth. The POSCO act is an add on for them now as the news has gone so viral. From a newborn until a minor they can just pick up any random kid and put the cock in mouth or they can suck up a kid as it is tagged as not a rigorous assault! High-five? The law gives you a free license in this country!

Why this law? Does different body part has different dignity? Are we not meant to be as a whole? An assault is an assault! How can a law differ for different body parts? I am speechless!

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