It was not seen by me, but perhaps you also heard of the 2011 fantasy, comic book film, Sucker Punch. It relates a story about an abused teen-ager. Her villainous step-father unkindly sent her to an insane asylum after the girl sought to protect herself and her sibling, if I have the story correct. During the film while imprisoned in the insane ward the young woman day-dreams of overcoming various, fanciful foes with her sword play, martial arts fighting skills. In a crowd pleasing movie such as this one you do have to see the film to know generally, the ending. In some victorious, entertaining manner the teen-aged heroine likely defeated her stepfather, maybe sent him to jail and she is forever freed from his harms.
How sad many young people are not able to day-dream themselves out of the real-life horrors they live in day to day. More often there isn’t a happy ending when abusive adults dodge justice for years in their sinister consumption of youthful victims. You may wish to google or research the recent statistics of human rights abuses against children, the problem is world-wide. My thought is much of it, these news accounts are unknown to the public. And too many of them are ignored. Yet another concealed crisis swept under the rug, not taken seriously enough, same-like other critical problems globally. I do not have teen-aged children of my own. If this was the case my choice would be to discuss with my daughter the ordeal of Sahar Gul rather than to purchase (or rent) a DVD of Sucker Punch for her to watch.
You may be aware of Sahar Gul, some several months ago she was entered into an arranged marriage. My assumption she is a real life, 15-year old heroine in her own circumstances. Please consider weighing in thought what she had endured. Her skin burned with cigarettes, being physically beaten before hand. She also had the fingernails ripped off her fingers, her ear lobe damaged. Sahar's skin was also cut with priers. These were among the torments this Afghan child bride experienced much of from her mother-in-law, who is now in police custody. Sahar Gul also been locked in the toilet room for at leash five months, receiving little food and water. Why did her new family exercised vile abuse upon this teen-ager?
Sahar was sold by her own, older brother for some $5000 in US value. In the course of time Ms. Gul refused her in-laws’ outrageous demands. They sought to force this child bride into prostitution to garnish the unloving family income. Sahar courageously resisted, my appreciation she stuck to her values, maintained her dignity-integrity likely in the face of constant threats. Then as stated before this defenseless youth received harsh treatment. People heard her fading cries for help from outside her in-laws’ basement, of their home. It was her uncle who contacted police. Sahar was rescued when authorities raided the dwelling. Gul’s immediate family had inquired of the whereabouts of their missing kin months before.
How unfortunate regarding this matter that humans are put on the market against their will, placed on sale by their own families. Years ago a US teen-ager offered her tender-aged, little sister for sale. Greedy for fornication several, dog-like men took the bait, raping the child. In Iran there is a notorious, secretive practice of mothers selling their own daughters not as wives, but as sex slaves and prostitutes. There may be accounts of these older, Iranian women haggling with potential buyers for top price for their daughters. In India unwanted girls born to parents desiring sons are on the endangered list. These persons of undesired gender been murdered often, in unaccounted millions. Indian authorities had uncovered remains of developed fetuses aborted and discarded in trash bags. What is noted here may pale in comparison of other, appalling crimes.
The lack of authentic love and affection in this world exceeded beyond what you may not expect nowadays. The wait for human institutions to establish high moral standards for us could be a fallacy in anticipation. For example, why is pornography still legal in communities combating sexual assaults and child predators? More than ever before sincere individuals and families may need to seek out reliable resources and exemplary examples to help them to live opposite of what this love-less, disorderly world portrays. Under suitable conditions my belief is people have a greater ability to do what is good, beneficial toward one another than what are wicked and detrimental. Yet ultimately each person must consciously decide how to conduct oneself in society. This self-awareness may be liken to a well-instructed auto driver choosing to shun driving while texting or sped pass a stop sign because no one is watching him.
According to news sources Sahar Gul's husband and father-in-law were on the run from justice, after police raided their Baghlan province residence and arrested the sister-in-law and mother-in-law last week. The father-in-law was recently arrested this week while his son eludes authorities. At a public hearing regarding Miss Gul's abuse, Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai vowed those responsible for her torture will be punished. Sahar's story had and still is repeated in varying degrees of hellish treatment among many other women in Afghanistan. We could assume scores of these victims had not lived to tell the media of their abuses experienced as Sahar vocally struggled to do so. She may face years recovery from the psychological toll, emotional disorders heaped upon her.
You may wonder how would global society discourage, to stop individuals from conducting inhuman treatment against others. It is true, is it not so that Sahar's in-laws could had been good people if they chosen to do so? After her rescue the bruised, weaken youth bride was taken to a hospital in Kabul, she may be on her way now to India for more advanced medical treatment. If you wish you may share your viewpoints via the comment link.
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