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Demands For Justice
On 16 December, 2012, a 23-year old woman and her friend hailed a bus at a crossing in South Delhi. In the bus, they were both brutally attacked by a group of men who claimed to be out on a 'joy-ride'. The woman was gang raped and the man beaten up; after several hours, they were both stripped and dumped on the road. While the young woman is still in hospital, bravely battling for her life, her friend has been discharged and is helping identify the men responsible for the heinous crime.
We, the undersigned, women's, students' and progressive groups and concerned citizens from around the country, are outraged at this incident and, in very strong terms, condemn her gang rape and the physical and sexual assault.
As our protests spill over to the streets all across the country, our demands for justice are strengthened by knowing that there are countless others who share this anger. We assert that rape and other forms of sexual violence are not just a women's issue, but a political one that should concern every citizen. We strongly demand that justice is done in this and all other cases and the perpetrators are punished.
This incident is not an isolated one; sexual assault occurs with frightening regularity in this country. Adivasi and Dalit women and those working in the unorganised sector, women with disabilities, hijras, kothis, trans people and sex workers are especially targeted with impunity— it is well known that the complaints of sexual assault they file are simply disregarded. We urge that the wheels of justice turn not only to incidents such as the Delhi bus case, but to the epidemic of sexual violence that threatens all of us. We need to evolve punishments that act as true deterrents to the very large number of men who commit these crimes. Our stance is not anti-punishment but against the State executing the death penalty. The fact that cases of rape have a conviction rate of as low as 26% shows that perpetrators of sexual violence enjoy a high degree of impunity, including being freed of charges.
Silent witnesses to everyday forms of sexual assault such as leering, groping, passing comments, stalking and whistling are equally responsible for rape being embedded in our culture and hence being so prevalent today. We, therefore, also condemn the culture of silence and tolerance for sexual assault and the culture of valorising this kind of violence.
We also reject voices that are ready to imprison and control women and girls under the garb of 'safety', instead of ensuring their freedom as equal participants in society and their right to a life free of perpetual threats of sexual assault, both inside and outside their homes.
In cases (like this) which have lead to a huge public outcry all across the country, and where the perpetrators have been caught, we hope that justice will be speedily served and they will be convicted for the ghastly acts that they have committed. However, our vision of this justice does not include death penalty, which is neither a deterrent nor an effective or ethical response to these acts of sexual violence. We are opposed to it for the following reasons:
- We recognise that every human being has a right to life. Our rage cannot give way to what are, in no uncertain terms, new cycles of violence. We refuse to deem 'legitimate' any act of violence that would give the State the right to take life in our names. Justice meted by the State cannot bypass complex socio-political questions of violence against women by punishing rapists by death. Death penalty is often used to distract attention away from the real issue— it changes nothing but becomes a tool in the hands of the State to further exert its power over its citizens. A huge set of changes are required in the system to end the widespread and daily culture of rape.
- There is no evidence to suggest that the death penalty acts as a deterrent to rape. Available data shows that there is a low rate of conviction in rape cases and a strong possibility that the death penalty would lower this conviction rate even further as it is awarded only under the 'rarest of rare' circumstances. The most important factor that can act as a deterrent is the certainty of punishment, rather than the severity of its form.+
- As seen in countries like the US, men from minority communities make up a disproportionate number of death row inmates. In the context of India, a review of crimes that warrant capital punishment reveals the discriminatory way in which such laws are selectively and arbitrarily applied to disadvantaged communities, religious and ethnic minorities. This is a real and major concern, as the possibility of differential consequences for the same crime is injustice in itself.
- The logic of awarding death penalty to rapists is based on the belief that rape is a fate worse than death. Patriarchal notions of 'honour' lead us to believe that rape is the worst thing that can happen to a woman. There is a need to strongly challenge this stereotype of the 'destroyed' woman who loses her honour and who has no place in society after she's been sexually assaulted. We believe that rape is tool of patriarchy, an act of violence, and has nothing to do with morality, character or behaviour.
- An overwhelming number of women are sexually assaulted by people known to them, and often include near or distant family, friends and partners. Who will be able to face the psychological and social trauma of having reported against their own relatives? Would marital rape (currently not recognised by law), even conceptually, ever be looked at through the same retributive prism?
- The State often reserves for itself the 'right to kill' — through the armed forces, the paramilitary and the police. We cannot forget the torture, rape and murder of ThangjamManoramaby the Assam Rifles in Manipur in 2004 or the abduction, gang rape and murder of Neelofar and Aasiya of Shopian (Kashmir) in 2009.Giving more powers to the State, whether arming the police and giving them the right to shoot at sight or awarding capital punishment, is not a viable solution to lessen the incidence of crime.
Furthermore, with death penalty at stake, the 'guardians of the law' will make sure that no complaints against them get registered and they will go to any length to make sure that justice does not see the light of day. The ordeal of Soni Sori, who had been tortured in police custody last year, still continues her fight from inside aprison in Chattisgarh, in spite of widespread publicity around her torture.
- As we know, in cases of sexual assault where the perpetrator is in a position of power (such as in cases of custodial rape or caste and communal violence), conviction is notoriously difficult. The death penalty, for reasons that have already been mentioned, would make conviction next to impossible.
We, the undersigned, demand the following:
- Greater dignity, equality, autonomy and rights for women and girls from a society that should stop questioning and policing their actions at every step.
- Immediate relief in terms of legal, medical, financial and psychological assistance and long-term rehabilitation measures must be provided to survivors of sexual assault.
- Provision of improved infrastructure to make cities safer for women, including well-lit pavements and bus stops, help lines and emergency services.
- Effective registration, monitoring and regulation of transport services (whether public, private or contractual) to make them safe, accessible and available to all.
- Compulsory courses within the training curriculum on gender sensitisation for all personnel employed and engaged by the State in its various institutions, including the police.
- That the police do its duty to ensure that public spaces are free from harassment, molestation and assault. This means that they themselves have to stop sexually assaulting women who come to make complaints. They have to register all FIRs and attend to complaints. CCTV cameras should be set up in all police stations and swift action must be taken against errant police personnel.
- Immediate setting up of fast track courts for rape and other forms of sexual violence all across the country. State governments should operationalise their creation on a priority basis. Sentencing should be done within a period of six months.
- The National Commission for Women has time and again proved itself to be an institution that works against the interests of women. NCW's inability to fulfil its mandate of addressing issues of violence against women, the problematic nature of the statements made by the Chairperson and its sheer inertia in many serious situations warrants that the NCW role be reviewed and audited as soon as possible.
- The State acknowledges the reality of custodial violence against women in many parts of the country, especially in Kashmir, North-East and Chhattisgarh. There are several pending cases and immediate action should be taken by the government to punish the guilty and to ensure that these incidents of violence are not allowed to be repeated.
Regarding the Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill 2012, women's groups have already submitted detailed recommendations to the Home Ministry. We strongly underline that the Bill must not be passed in its current form because of its many serious loopholes and lacuna. Some points:
- There has been no amendment to the flawed definition of consent under Sec 375 IPC and this has worked against the interest of justice for women.
- The formulation of the crime of sexual assault as gender neutralmakes the identity of the perpetrator/accused also gender neutral. We demand that the definition of perpetrator be gender-specific and limited to men. Sexual violence also targets transgender people and legal reform must address this.
- In its current form, the Bill does not recognise the structural and graded nature of sexual assault, based on concepts of hurt, harm, injury, humiliation and degradation. The Bill also does not use well-established categories of sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault and sexual offences.
- It does not mention sexual assault by security forces as a specific category of aggravated sexual assault. We strongly recommend the inclusion of perpetration of sexual assault by security forces under Sec 376(2).
Endorsed by the following groups and individuals:
- Citizens' Collective against Sexual Assault (CCSA)
- Purnima, Nirantar, New Delhi
- Sandhya Gokhale, Forum Against Oppression of Women, Bombay
- Deepti, Saheli, Delhi
- Mary John, Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS), New Delhi
- Jagori, Delhi
- Vimochana, Bangalore
- Stree Mukti Sanghathan, Delhi
- Madhya Pradesh Mahila Manch
- Kavita Krishnan, AIPWA, New Delhi
- Anuradha Kapoor ,Swayam, Calcutta
- Kalpana Mehta, Manasi Swasthya Sansthan, Indore
- Nandita Gandhi, Akshara, Bombay
- Indira, Women against Sexual Violence and State Repression, (WSS), New Delhi
- National Alliance of people's Movements (NAPM)
- Mallika, Maati, Uttarakhand
- Meena Saraswathi Seshu, SANGRAM, Sangli
- GRAMEENA MAHILA Okkutta, Karnataka
- WinG Assam
- Arati Chokshi, PUCL, Bangalore.
- Action India, Delhi
- Majlis Law, Legal Services for Women, Mumbai
- Sahiayar (Stree Sangathan), Vadodara, Gujarat
- Vasanth Kannabiran (NAWO, AP) Asmita
- Sheba George, SAHRWARU
- SAMYAK, Pune
- Shabana Kazi, VAMP
- Sruti disAbility Rights Centre, Kolkata
- Forum to Engage Men (FEM), New Delhi
- MASVAW( Men Action for stopping Violence Against Women), UP
- Breakthrough, New Delhi
- V Rukmini Rao, Gramya Resource Centre for Women, Secunderabad
- LABIA, a queer feminist LBT collective, Mumbai
- Law Trust, Tamil Nadu
- Men's Action to Stop Violence agaisnt Women (MASVAW), UP
- National Forum for Single Women's Rights
- NAWO-AP, Arunachal Pradesh Women's Welfare Society (APWWS)
- Indigenous Women's Resource Centre (IWRC)
- New Socialist Initiative, Delhi
- Gabriele Dietrich, Pennurimai Iyakkam
- Sangat, a South Asian Feminist Network
- Stree Mukti Sanghatana, Mumbai
- SWATI, Ahmedabad
- Tamil Nadu Women Fish Workers Forum
- Subhash Mendhapurkar,SUTRA, H.P.
- Mario, Nigah, queer collective, New Delhi
- Sushma Varma, Samanatha Mahila Vedike, Bangalore
- Priti Darooka, PWESCR (The Programme on Women's Economic, Social and Cultural Rights), New Delhi
- Pushpa Achanta (WSS, Karnataka)
- AWN, Kabul
- AZAD and Sakha Team, Delhi
- Ekta, Madurai
- Empower People
- Vrinda Grover
- Chayanika Shah, Bombay
- Aruna Roy
- Kalyani Menon-Sen, Feminist Learning Partnerships, Gurgaon
- Nandini Rao
- Pratiksha Baxi
- Amrita Nandy
- Farah Naqvi, Writer & Activist, Delhi
- Nivedita Menon
- Urvashi Butalia
- Kaveri R I, Bengaluru
- Dunu Roy
- Harsh Mander
- Anil TV
- Laxmi Murthy, Journalist, Bangalore
- Rahul Roy
- Rituparna Borah, queer feminist activist
- Ranjana Padhi, New Delhi
- Trupti Shah, Vadodara, Gujarat
- Vasanth Kannabiran
- Sudha Bharadwaj
- Veena Shatrugna, Hyderabad
- Kamayani Bali Mahabal
- Kiran Shaheen, Journalist and activist
- Lesley A Esteves, journalist, New Delhi
- Devangana Kalita, Assam
- Aruna Burte
- Anita Ghai
- Mohan Rao, New Delhi
- Rakhi Sehgal, New Delhi
- Geetha Nambisan
- Charan Singh, New Delhi
- Manjima Bhattacharjya
- Jinee Lokaneeta,Associate professor, Drew University, Madison, NJ
- Kavita Panjabi, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
- Albertina almeida, Goa
- Satyajit Rath, New Delhi
- Prerna Sud, New Delhi
- Priya Sen, New Delhi
- Aarthi Pai, Bangalore
- Kalpana Vishwanath, Gurgaon
- Aisha K. Gill, Reader, University of Roehampton, London
- Ammu Abraham, Mumbai
- Anagha Sarpotdar, Activist and PhD Student, Mumbai
- Anand Pawar
- Anuradha Marwah, Ajmer Adult Education Association (AAEA), Ajmer
- Asha Ramesh, activist/researcher/consultant
- Bondita
- Gauri Gill, New delhi
- Sophia Khan, Gujarat
- Niranjani Iyer, Chennai
- Dyuti Ailawadi
- Gandimathi Alagar
- Gayatri Buragohain—Feminist Approach to Technology (FAT), New Delhi
- Geetha Nambisan, Delhi
- Sadhna Arya, New Delhi
- Vineeta Bal, New Delhi
- Suneeta Dhar
- Geeta Ramaseshan, Advocate, Chennai
- Sonal Sharma, New delhi
- Anusha Hariharan, Delhi/Chennai
- Jayasree.A.K,
- Gautam Bhan, New Delhi
- Jayasree Subramanian, TISS, Hyderabad
- Jhuma Sen, Advocate, Supreme Court
- Teena Gill, New Delhi
- Kannamma Raman
- Karuna D W
- Kavita Panjabi
- Shalini Krishan, New Delhi
- Lalita Ramdas, Secunderabad
- Manasi Pingle
- Madhumita Dutta, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Manoj Mitta
- Pamela Philipose
- Parul Chaudhary
- Preethi Herman
- Sunil Gupta, New Delhi
- Radha Khan
- Rama Vedula
- Rebecca John
- Renu Khanna, SAHAJ
- Rohini Hensman (Writer and Activist, Bombay)
- Rohit Prajapati, Environmental activist, Gujarat
- Roshmi Goswami
- Shipra Nigam, Consultant Economist, Research and Information Systems, New Delhi
- Shipra Deo, Agribusiness Systems InternationalVamshakti, Pratapgarh
- Rukmini Datta
- Sridala Swami
- Sarba Raj Khadka, Kathmandu
- Satish K. Singh, CHSJ
- Shinkai Karokhail, from the Afghanistan Parliament
- Sima Samar, Kabul
- Smita Singh, FTII, Pune
- Subhalakshmi Nandi
- Sujata Gothoskar
- Swar Thounaojam
- Inayat Sabhikhi
- Jaya Vindhyala, Hyderabad
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The stats:
Per 100000 people:
Murders: India - 5.5 (67th rank)/ US - 5.9 (63rd)
Rapes: India - 1.7 (68th rank)/ US - 30.2 (5th)Dec 28, 2012 11:26 PM Chittaranjan, Bangalore, India
@13/D-129 - Arun Maheshwari: Sir, very consistently, you infer something I hadn't even remotely suggested :-) Where did I rationalise/justify the crime? A crime is a crime, punishable offence according as the strictures of that particular land. That's as it is. If the code puts capital punishment for eve-teasing or mugging too, so be it. That's not the point.
My point is - in all this fuss, do we attribute responsibility fairly, at least wherever it is due?
It's quite possible that someone might kill me without provocation, that someone might mug me when I step into an ATM on a busy street, even when I have taken all the care anyone would do when on road. However, if I'm so prudent, I am expected to exercise it at all times. When I don't do it (in the name of freedom), I should at least acknowledge that I'm taking the risky road. It's possible that I might come out safe 9 times out of 10 such adventures. But when on that one unfortunate, odd incident if someone exploits my vulnerability, instead of just blaming the other person (which is rightful), should I not be a little more reflective and assess if I went overboard? This is unto the individuals. I don't intend to suggest that for this reason the punishment for the other be reduced (of course not!) or that I should also be charged with an offence (that's absurd!).
Without taking it either sides, is it not possible for the individual to just sit up and reflect? What is so wrong or horrible in this?
These campaigns reek of the lines, "men should be punished", "men should be taught", etc. A man doesn't grow up in isolation. He is a bit of us - this very society which includes both men and women. The chap doesn't pick up values from just his father, but also from his mother, sister, cousins, friends, etc. When a guy returns home depressed after a heartbreak and his mother or sister cheer him saying, "how dare she refuse you! Go and get her", the women too are responsible for his arrogance and disrespect. Do we see this? Can we, therefore, not fuss about teaching men only, but also insist that women be taught in equal measure?
That is all. If this time too you infer something amusing, I would rather just laugh it off. Have a good day! :-)Dec 27, 2012 06:17 PM Chittaranjan, Bangalore, India
Chittaranjanji, either I am dense or you are dense. Let me keep it simple in the spirit of the season and say very likely I am the dense one here missing something profound (anyways as my b'day approaches and the world still around 2012 notwithstanding, I look at my mistakes and do realize, I am dense).
However, let me leave you with a few thoughts ....
1. In the first case, the crime the person who mugged you committed is "mugging". He/she is the criminal. As you suggested, you advertised - "come and mug me". What crime would you want to be charged with for this advertisement - may be assets disproportionate with your known sources of income :-)? Or, would you want the magnitude of the crime of "mugging" be reduced (and hence the punishment for it for the criminal)?
2. In the 2nd case, the crime the person committed is so called "eve teasing" (of course this is a more uniquely Indian crime - in some countries the example you gave would be considered flirting or acceptable banter). Of course, in most of these modern civilized country, if this went too far into violence or worse forced sexual act it would be considered a crime, plain and simple. Again, what crime would you want the women to be charged with for as you suggest "inviting" a sexual act to be forced upon her. Or, again would want the magnitude of the other persons crime be reduced (and hence punishment)?
Hope as you answer these to yourself (don't have to write the response), you find the fallacy of your arguments and why there is only one crime and one criminal in these examples. Otherwise, it would suggest you are promoting the idea of "inviting crime" as a rationale to minimize the magnitude and gravity of the crime by apportioning blame in some proportion, i.e., making it a justifiable crime.Dec 27, 2012 05:13 PM Arun Maheshwari, Bangalore, India
An "aggravated sexual assault" ( ASA) is where the law has to be amended and all states should be mandated by law to set up special sexual assault courts which shall have all other facilities like a lab and a victim statement recording facility by a magistrate in front of a women doctor and woman police officer.
So if a woman complaints all that a "woman police station" has to do is to take her to this place where evidence will be collected by the lab and a victim's statement would be recorded by magistrate ( any time of day )which shall be an admissible evidence in court.
The ASA case should be solved within one year maximum time period in all conditions.
Then what is Aggravated Sexual Assault?
In an example case, the rapist assaulted , but could not rape due to any reason including his own inability to penetrate in the last minute. In that case , it should be considered as rape. As per present laws defense lawyer might ask " where is semen sample"? where is the evidence of any tearing of hymen etc. in case of a virgin girl. There was no more and may be no evidence of molestation because her clothes were not torn etc., which is off course very disturbing for the girl to answer in the court .
2 ) sequential terms of punishment.
That is when a woman is molested, injured and then raped , the punishment will only be for rape as per present norms because the judge will finally say that jail punishment for all these offences shall be borne by the culprit all at one time. But if it is sequential ( and mandated ) , the criminal has to undergo one after the other like 7 years for rape plus 2 years and again plus 3 years for example.
3) stalking would degenerate to rape and it true in 90% of all rape cases. There should be a system whereby stalkers should be immediately arrested and a heavy punishment like minimum 2 years jail term must be there and this is very important. At present stalkers will not get any punishment. Stalking should be declared as crime and policing system should make it clear that it would take stalking as very serious. Police training and their study material should include the dangers of stalking and how to profile a stalker.
4) women demanding a full liberty is all good ideologically speaking. But the practical reality is that in big cosmopolitan cities alertness of a woman is essential. She must avoid all types of dangerous situations of remaining alone in all places. She must also educated to take stalking very seriously and must not entertain such men. In fact she should be told to report to police. First of all police manuals have to be changed.
5) If the victim had undergone torture that put her in critical condition in the hospital like the recent bus rape incident, the punishment must be death by hanging. The present laws provide for Capital Punishment only if the victim dies. But it has to be amended so as to include cases where a rod or a stick is thrust in her vagina ,irrespective of if it had caused a critical injury ,bordering death or not. Once such a torture is perpetrated on a girl/woman/ or a child , it should invite death by hanging. Recent bus rape incident involved such a torture. But if the victim fortunately survives, ( and I pray she shall survive ) there is no question of punishment by hanging of these six men, as per present law. They will walk out of jail probably within 20 years.
Laws regarding rape should be amended immediately without further delay. First track special courts for rape , where the appeal by defendant should only be to a high court bench must be set up immediately.
Dec 27, 2012 04:32 PM bowenpalle venuraja gopal rao., warangal, india
@10/D-83, Arun Maheshwari: >>"You seem to be convinced there is something called "justifiable rape"<<
What an amusing inference, sir! My point isn't about justification. Far from it. My question is about attributing responsibility fairly. Let's take a simpler example - if I flash jewellery (or even cash box) on my person (which I have absolute right/freedom to), and someone mugs me, is there no fault of mine? Yes, out of a thousand, 999 will not try to do anything to me, even if 600 of them might fancy to. But there would be one chap who will take the unreasonable step. Do I justify it? No. An unreasonable act is unreasonable, regardless. However, it's equally irresponsible of me to blame only him for the incident. Do you still see some problem in this? And this isn't something abstract. People know that such an event is possible, which is why they keep the valuables (gold, money, etc) safe. It doesn't mean that they are being denied their right or freedom. It's just an act of prudence, being aware that it's not en entirely safe world out there.
Coming back, my point is - such campaigns almost always blame men and never acknowledge that women could be at fault (am not referring to this particular incident, though). That's sloppy and idiotic. If justice is sought earnestly, then one must also be mature to acknowledge responsibility and where it is overlooked, also to accept the blame.
The other day, I saw a girl flash the caption "have you seen here?" on her tee. What does it mean? Does she have a right to wear what she likes to? Yes. Does she have the freedom to flash whichever caption she likes to? Absolutely, too. This was in a shopping mall. She may be later stopping by at some bus-stop. Public places, where the likelihood of an odd chap surfacing is always on. 200 guys may just see it and move on. 400 guys may see it and gossip among their groups. But there could be - could be - that one odd chap who may not stop at just seeing. He may make a passing remark or say in jest, "ya, i have seen. very nice stuff". The chap is at fault - undeniably. Nothing justifies it. However, is the girl faultless? My point is just this. Has she invited it? Perhaps not (nobody invites trouble). Has she kicked out the prudence of what may possibly happen at public places? Certainly.
These feminist voices are very loud about asserting the rights of the girl to wear what she likes (which I agree with, too), but refuse to see, forget accepting, if the girl, too, was rather at fault. You ask me why one must dress up appropriately? It's ridiculous, because the same people accept without any questions the dress code their company imposes. Then why such a fuss about observing it in other spaces, too. It's for the same reason that men don't step out naked.
It's immature to always blame the others for consequences (We are not talking of the horrid incidents in, say, Kashmir, where homes are plundered and people are humiliated. It follows a different power dynamics).Dec 27, 2012 01:16 PM Chittaranjan, Bangalore, India
Chittaranjan further writes ..... ""I have every right to be a b***h and am proud of it, but I expect all men to be gentlemanly, regardless"."
Not really .... I think they are not expecting "all men to be gentlemanly, regardless" they are just expecting not to be subjected to a sexual act against their wishes (defined in the modern civilized world as rape). There is a big difference but I guess you are not seeing it and unlikely I can show you the difference.
You seem to be convinced there is something called "justifiable rape". I hope someday you see this mindset as a slippery slope and once one is on it .... some will just stay with words and some will act it out.
Dec 27, 2012 11:47 AM Arun Maheshwari, Bangalore, India
I would want to add here (in response to views of Chittiranjan, Saroja, Arun Maheswari et al) that we should stop seeing Rape as just a Male Versus Female issue and see the larger perspective here.
Behind Every rapist there is also a family/background , including a mother (or teacher) who has refused to give the proper value education to her son/student and failed to teach the guy the importance of turning his male hormones towards acheiving concrete self improvement and investing in some enterprise rather than in a sexual assault.
And Behind every rape victim is not just a woman abused but also a man (could be a father, boy friend, brother, husband, son etc) who is also abused. I think it is Germaine Green or somebody a radical feminist whom I refuse to acknowledge but yet she said it right in that rape is also a crime of some men against some other men.
Let us all adults mature and stop making this whole thing merely as a Male versus female issue. Rape is also plain goondagiri . Some weak men also suffer the equivalent of rape in colleges and that goes by name ragging but we in media refuse to even talk about it. Maybe both are not equivalent but end result is destroying a person's self respect.
Let us debate on which laws will deter rape, which wont etc but it is time we stop seeing this only from a men vs women perspective.Dec 27, 2012 07:41 AM , ,
>>The formulation of the crime of sexual assault as gender neutral makes the identity of the perpetrator/accused also gender neutral. We demand that the definition of perpetrator be gender-specific and limited to men.
I fail to understand why. How do you explain the sexual torture & murder of a 10 year old child by her employer because she was found to be using her employers' cosmetics?
Sonu was employed by the the family at their third-floor residence at Galactica Apartments in Lokhandwala since January 2006. On June 21, 2006, she was found hanging in the flat. The family's claim that Sonu had committed suicide was soon nailed as a lie by the police when forensic evidence revealed that Sonu had been sodomised and suffocated to death.
The police had initially charged Rajesh with rape. Subsequently, the rape charges were dropped after scientific evidence led to the conclusion that the injuries on the maid's private parts had been inflicted by a foreign object.
This is when Roma, a mother of three school-going children, who stayed five floors above the Gajaria's residence, emerged as the main suspect. Following sustained questioning, Roma confessed that she had found Sonu using her mother's make up. Enraged at the child's conduct, she had tortured Sonu by inserting an aluminium rod in her private parts and smothered her to death.
Dec 27, 2012 12:41 AM , ,
@6/D-106, Arun Maheshwari - Being stupid, immature cannot be a justification to disown the onus for consequences of a decision/deed. Prudence is a good substitute for the lack of the powers of precoginition. We may not know what the future holds, but we surely have it in us to sense danger or at least the probability for such. Which is why we drive carefully when on roads. We always deal with possibilities and probabilities in life, and an adult - man and woman - is expected to appreciate the same. This doesn't come with education, but with a broader understanding of the world.
When we walk into a forest, we don't walk about just any way without caution, although technically we have the freedom and right to do so (we also have the 'freedom' to step out naked - if it's a matter of 'right' to dress up as one pleases, this also is an equally valid choice). However, if one is adventurous and insists on exercising such freedom, it's only logical that he/she should also have the gumption to own up the consequences.
Most of these feminist voices seem to suggest, in the name of abstractions 'freedom' and 'rights', "I have every right to be a b***h and am proud of it, but I expect all men to be gentlemanly, regardless".
The world is nasty and ruthless, but that's how it is. To blame it all only on men and absolve women is, I'm afraid, grossly lopsided.Dec 26, 2012 06:43 PM Chittaranjan, Bangalore, India
Chittaranjan of Bangalore writes .... "Now, my question is - if the rape had happened, is the woman not guilty of any fault?"
In most of the modern civilized world, even if she "led on", possibly dragged one to the "holy grail" (in a manner of speaking) and then said "NO" but was forced into a sexual act, it would be a crime of rape. It would be irrespective of the "character" of the women or her profession or other antecedents. In your example the women could be considered as stupid, putting herself in harms way, immature and what not BUT none of that would be a crime or a justification for the crime of "rape".
Whether we want to be that civilized, I guess is up to us as a "people". As the saying goes "we have a long way to go, baby" and for the moment it isn't clear we can even get there.
Dec 26, 2012 05:47 PM Arun Maheshwari, Bangalore, India
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Beautiful brick ranch in sought after Riverside Gardens. Great location, just blocks from Riverside Park. Large kitchen with tile back splash and eating area. Formal dining room. Large living room with fireplace. 3 bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms. Hardwood floors under carpeted areas on the main floor. Lower level offers lots of potential as an entertaining space with another fireplace. 2 car garage and fenced in back yard. New roof, furnace, hot water heater in 2015.
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Sugar House is shut, and so is another chapter in sordid Denver history
Things don't look too sweet for Sugar House, the swingers club that Scottie Ewing opened in 2007 after selling Denver Players, a hip hooker business. A broken window in front is covered with plywood, the door is locked up tight, the voicemail box is full. Its closure (for now) ends another wacky chapter in Denver history.
Ewing, a former pro ski racer with a very varied resume (as revealed in this 2006 Westword cover story), had opened Sugar House at 1395 West Alameda Avenue after landlords in northwest Denver objected to the very-adult, and unauthorized, activities in the storefront he'd rented there (read more in our 2007 story "Exhibitionists!"). By contrast, Ewing was very upfront regarding his new enterprise, tagging Sugar House with the motto, "If sexy offends you, stay home," and pressing on with plans over neighbors' objections."The whole philosophy is that you gather people with similar interests," he explained just before the club opened. "There was no place for people with this lifestyle or with those interests to have a default place to meet."
After that, Ewing kept a relatively low profile until last spring, when he was revealed as the source of the accusations that Michael Hancock, then running for Denver mayor, had allegedly been a customer of Denver Players. The story broke just a few days before the run-off election, creating one of the wilder weeks for local journalism, with Ewing reporting that his computer had been stolen and reporters poring over Hancock's phone records. But Hancock, who denied the accusations, won the election handily, and the story went away...except for a few occasional hiccups on the web and talk radio.
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Ewing went away, too. By the end of summer, he no longer owned Sugar House, having sold it to a manager, Kelly Bailey. And late last year, he left town altogether, landing in California while he makes plans to open a Sugar House in Las Vegas.
Now Denver's Sugar House, which had added a weekday, G-rated alter-ego of the Alameda Grill, could be gone for good. In February, Bailey was served with a notice of a liquor-license violation -- allegedly serving to a minor -- and she recently received a letter from the Denver Department of Excise and License, ordering her to "appear to show cause why the temporary permit to operate a hotel and restaurant class liquor license issued to Khameleon Group, LLC, doing business as Sugar House, 1395 West Alameda Avenue, Denver, Colorado, should not be suspended or revoked for alleged violations of the Colorado Liquor Code as stated in the February 2, 2012 Amended Order to Show Cause in this matter."
That hearing has been postponed, because a witness -- a police cadet who appears to be part of the underage issue -- has a conflict with the scheduled March 16 show-case hearing. But in the meantime, Sugar House/Alameda Grill is locked up tight.
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We've slowly been rolling out Microsoft Windows 7 Business within our organization, and some machines have been experiencing slow network performance and failed downloads from various websites. Downloads would start at a very fast rate (300-400 KB/s) and then within 10 seconds or so, it continue to creep down to 3-4 bytes/second. The connection would not necessarily time-out, it could just sit there for hours (or days) downloading at 0-1 bytes/second.
It has been sporadic, and a variety of sites have been affected, (mainstream website like Microsoft, Autodesk, Source Forge). Initially, this seemed to have all the makings of a network issue -- like there was possibly an issue with our router/firewall, or that our ISP was throttling our bandwidth. Not all of our Win7 machines were affected though, and none of our Windows XP clients were having any problems.
After testing and trying various things, we discovered that there may be some sort of compatibility issue with the network drivers and the power-saving features in Windows 7/Vista. We verified that we were using the latest drivers (Dell Latitude D531 laptops and Dell Precision T5 desktop workstations), but it didn't make any difference. We simply turned off the power saving features on the NIC and this issue completely disappeared.
- Open Device Manager
- Expand Network adapters
- Secondary-click (right-click to the right-handed population) on the affected network adapter and select Properties
- Open the Power Management tab
- Clear the tick box next to Allow the computer to turn off this devices to save power
- Click OK
We've been tinkering with this off-and-on for several months now, so hopefully this post helps save anyone else from getting hung-up on this problem too!
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That's a useful tip and I'll make note of. We have migrated many of our Dell Optiplex workstations from XP to Windows 7 but no reports so far of this happening.
Jul 14, 2011 at 8:38 UTC
You should post it as a how-to
Jul 14, 2011 at 9:54 UTC
please test these options, we have used them with success with our Win 7 systems to fix all network/speed issues.
disable Remote Diff. Compression:
go to Programs & Features, click Turn Windows Features on/off and un-tick the option
disable Autotune:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disable
disable Scaling Heuristics:
netsh int tcp set heuristics disabled
enable Compound TCP
netsh int tcp set global congestionprovider=ctcp
we found those settings, along with disabling IPv6 on network adapters helped a lot. the last setting is off by default and only on with Server 2008. make sure your Win 7 systems have a good DNS link to all your DC's, as it relies on DNS a lot.
Jul 27, 2011 at 6:24 UTC
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Manual steps to improve internet explorer speed on windows 7 is a good practice but it should be performed by expert IT persons. However, it has been experienced that if setting made in windows OS is not correct or compatible with OS then it also lead to data loss or some critical system problems. Slow ie speed in windows 7 can also be removed by using professional speed up windows 7 tool. Here, if the problem is related to only few systems then it is good and secured idea to use commercial tool. If you are an expert then manual steps will surely suits you.
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The BSM Math League is open to all students in grades 7-12. Our goal is to have fun while solving challenging and interesting math problems. Most years, we have around 40-50 students participate in Math League. Over the past 15 years, the BSM Math League has placed either 1st or 2nd in our division EVERY year. When we place 1st, we qualify for the Minnesota state meet, which is a very fun and exciting culmination to our season.
Because our students are so busy in a variety of activities, and we don't want Math League to be stressful, we practice only once or twice week – Every Wednesday morning before school (October – March), and also on Tuesdays (October - December), when we compete on-line against schools across the United States. You can also participate in other sports or activities throughout the season while still being part of math league. We all take turns bringing a breakfast of muffins or doughnuts and juice. We have six MSHSL meets throughout the year that are on Mondays after school. Because of our large team, BSM has varsity and junior varsity teams that compete at each meet. A bus will take us to and from the venue and return approximately at 6 p.m.
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A Congressional field hearing today in Daytona Beach focused on the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) new Florida Test Bed facility for developing NextGen air traffic control technologies. The hearing, which preceded today's opening of the Test Bed, highlighted the partnership between the FAA, the private sector and academia in developing state of the art technologies for modernizing the nation's air traffic control system.
"The Florida Test Bed is an example of how the federal government can harness private sector and academic resources in partnership to help modernize our air traffic control system and improve the safety and efficiency of U.S. aviation," said U.S. Rep. John L. Mica (R-FL), Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which conducted today's hearing. "With the development of Next Generation air traffic control technology, software and systems in this area, we have the potential for one of the most significant high paying job opportunities since the start of the space program."
Mica continued, "While NextGen has faced challenges, being able to leverage private sector and academic expertise and resources has been a positive step for the NextGen program. The next important step in moving NextGen forward is for Congress to pass a long overdue FAA bill. We have had four and a half years of delay and short-term extensions of the previous FAA law. This patchwork series of 22 short-term FAA extensions is no way for Congress to authorize our nation's aviation system and programs.
"We have had too many aviation near misses, both on the ground and in the air," Mica added. "The nation needs the safest, most efficient aviation system possible. It is time to complete an FAA bill, which will set critically needed milestones and metrics for the development of NextGen."
"NextGen is a massive, complicated program, and we have to do it right," said U.S. Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI), Chairman of the Aviation Subcommittee. "The Florida Test Bed is an example of a public-private partnership that will bring together government, the private sector and academia to move NextGen forward by testing and developing NextGen technologies. We need to draw on the expertise and experience of a wide range of interests if NextGen is to succeed. This is the type of collaborative effort we need to ensure that NextGen progresses so that we can enjoy the many benefits it will provide in terms of safety, the environment and greater efficiencies. I am pleased to be here in Florida with Chairman Mica on this important day for the Florida Test Bed."
FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University President Dr. John P. Johnson, the Government Accountability Office and aviation industry representatives testified at today's hearing.
The state of the art Florida Test Bed, which also opened today, was established through a partnership between FAA, Embry-Riddle, and Daytona Beach International Airport. The Test Bed allows the federal government to take advantage of the University and private sector expertise in developing and testing NextGen technologies.
The NextGen plan consists of new concepts and capabilities for air traffic management and communications, navigations, and surveillance that involves: transitioning from a ground-based radar system to a more automated, aircraft-centered, satellite-based surveillance system; developing more direct and efficient routes through the airspace; improving aviation weather systems; developing data communications capabilities between aircraft and the ground to reduce controller and pilot workload per aircraft; and creating shared and distributed information technology architectures.
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3. increasing the "ceiling" level of income needed to qualify for the assessment freeze;
4. expanding the senior citizens' Homestead Exemption from $4,000 to $5,500; and
5. indexing the Homestead Exemption and the assessment freeze to the inflation rate. (All in HB 4916)
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Shocking are a genetically enhanced teenage mercenary for hire group in the game Shocked. They are not exactly evil or good, but are willing to work for whomever pays the most. They are made up of four members, Striker, Blade, Venom, and Shadow.
- Status: Group leader
- Gender: Female
- Age: 15
- Power: The ability to cling to any surface
Striker is the youngest of the group but also the leader due to her strong will and determination to succeed. She is also the only female in the group, as well as the smartest beside Venom and most agile. She attacks with duel electric katanas.
- Status: Group Enforcer
- Gender: Male
- Age: 18
- Power: Strength 5 times that of a normal human
Blade isn't exactly the smartest guy around, but is definitely the strongest. He can break down an iron door with one fist, crush a man's arm between his thumb and forefinger, and wrestle a full grown bull elephant to the death. He does not need to use a weapon due to his strength.
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- Gender: Male
- Age: 17
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Venom's name is actually inaccurate. He is actually the least willing to kill out of the group, as well a the smartest. He is also a wise cracker. He can hack into a computer at lightning speed or fix a broken down car no problem. He uses two pads on his palms to channel electricity at his enemies.
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- Age: 16
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Three EU energy majors on Friday agreed to take a 50-percent stake in a Black Sea natural gas link Russia is developing for Europe's growing market in competition to one backed by the United States.
The partners said Italy's ENI will receive a 20-percent stake in South Stream's offshore operator while Germany's Wintershall and the French firm EDF will each get 15 percent.
The remaining 50-percent share will belong to Gazprom -- the Russian energy monopoly and world's largest gas producer that is developing routes to bypass nations such as Ukraine with which it has been embroiled in several price disputes.
"The European energy majors' decision to join this project is a clear indication of the EU nations' recognition of its timeliness and importance," Gazprom chief Alexei Miller said at a signing ceremony attended by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea city of Sochi.
The shareholder structure had been under review since the venture -- founded by Gazprom and ENI -- was joined by BASF's hydrocarbon subsidiary Wintershall and EDF under deals lending further European legitimacy to the link.
EDF boss Henri Proglio called it a "cornerstone... project that will play its role in providing for growing European gas needs."
South Stream is being set up in direct competition to the onshore Nabucco pipeline the United States is backing in hopes of relieving the inherent risks to Europe's strong dependence on Russian gas.
Both routes have faced questions about their feasibility because of their reliance on Caspian Sea and Central Asian fields that are already drawing interest from the booming markets of Asia such as China.
The lack of rapid progress and the EU's preferred commitment to Nabucco have spurred talk of an eventual merger between the two rival plans.
Such ideas have been dismissed in the past and a top Gazprom executive voiced confidence in Russia's choice.
"We have everything that is required: We have the gas, we have the market, we have the contracts, and we have the partners who have just signed their shareholder agreement," the Interfax news agency quoted Gazprom's deputy chief executive Alexander Medvedev as saying.
Gazprom has promoted South Stream as a way of improving European energy security after a price dispute between Russia and Ukraine led to a partial three-week cutoff of supplies to EU nations in 2009.
Tensions with Ukraine resurfaced again on Friday when its President Viktor Yanukovych unexpectedly suggested diverting a part of the link across his country instead of going through the western part of the Black Sea.
It only took minutes for Gazprom to dismiss Yanukovych's comments as irrelevant.
"They have been offering this for a long time," the firm's deputy chairman Valery Golubev was quoted as saying by Interfax. "But why do that when we can just run the pipeline straight?"
The two uneasy neighbours have over recent weeks been locked in a new crisis during which Kiev has tried to negotiate down the price of gas agreed under the disputed 2009 deal.
The Kremlin said Yanukovych would meet his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev in Russia on September 24 without providing further details.


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One of the most virulent books ever published was the Malleus Maleficarum, the witch hunting Bible penned by two German friars in the late 1480s. Misogyny seeps from its binding, even in the brightly-colored 1970s reprint I own. The book compiles anecdotes the friars gathered as they roamed the countryside searching for witches, under the protective cloak of a papal bull praising their efforts.
Here are some quotes from the Malleus.
- Although the devil can work without a witch, he yet very much prefers to work with one.
- If we inquire, we find that nearly all the kingdoms of the world have been overthrown by women.
- However much they are penitent and return to the Faith, they must not be punished like other Heretics with lifelong imprisonment, but must suffer the extreme penalty.
- For the divine law in many places commands that witches are not only be avoided, but also they are to be put to death, and it would not impose the extreme penalty of this kind if witches did not really and truly make a compact with devils in order to bring about real and true hurts and harms.
- For witchcraft is high treason against God's Majesty. And so they are to be put to the torture in order to make them confess… Any person, whatsoever his rank or position, upon such an accusation may be put to the torture, and he who is found guilty, even if he confesses his crime, let him be racked, let him suffer all other tortures prescribed by law in order that he may be punished in proportion to his offences. Note: In days of old such criminals suffered a double penalty and were often thrown to wild beast to be devoured by them. Nowadays they are burnt at the stake, and probably this is because the majority of them are women.
- Moreover, it is useless to argue that any result of witchcraft may be a phantasy and unreal, because such a phantasy cannot be procured without resort to the power of the devil, and it is necessary that there should be made a contract with the devil, but which contract the witch truly and actually binds herself to be the servant of the devil and devotes herself to the devil, and this is not done in any dream or under any illusion, but she herself bodily and truly co-operates with, and conjoins herself to, the devil.
- If anybody's spirit be inflamed with malice or rage, as is often the case with old women, then their disturbed spirit looks through their eyes, for their countenances are most evil and harmful, and often terrify young children of tender years, who are extremely impressionable
- Witches are so called from the enormity of their magic spells; for they disturb the elements and confound the minds of men, and without any venomous draught, but merely by virtue of incantations, destroy souls, etc.
- As for the first question, why a greater number of witches is found in the fragile feminine sex than among men; it is indeed a fact that it were idle to contradict, since it is accredited by actual experience, apart from the verbal testimony of credible witnesses…
- Since [women] are feebler both in mind and body, it is not surprising that they should come more under the spell of witchcraft… But the natural reason is that she is more carnal than a man, as is clear from her many carnal abominations. And it should be noted that there was a defect in the formation of the first woman, since she was formed from a bent rib, that is, a rib of the breast, which is bent as it were in a contrary direction to a man. And since through this defect she is an imperfect animal, she always deceives…
- To conclude. All witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which is in women insatiable.
- Now there are, as it is said in the Papal Bull, seven methods by which they infect with witchcraft the venereal act and the conception of the womb: First, by inclining the minds of men to inordinate passion; second, by obstructing their generative force; third, by removing the members accommodated to that act; fourth, by changing men into beasts by their magic art; fifth, by destroying the generative force in women; sixth, by procuring abortion; seventh, by offering children to devils, besides other animals and fruits of the earth with which they work much harm. And all these will be considered later; but for present let us give our minds to the injuries towards men.
- They can make of no effect the generative desires, and even the power of copulation, cause abortion, kill infants in the mother's womb by a mere exterior touch; they can at time bewitch men and animals with a mere look, without touching them, and cause death; they dedicate their own children to devils.
- The apparitions that come in dreams to sleepers proceed from the ideas retained in the repository of their mind, through a natural local motion caused by the flow of blood to the first and inmost seat of their faculties of perception; and we speak of an instrinsic local motion in the head and the cells of the brain. And this can also happen through a similar local motion created by devils. Also such things happen not only to the sleeping, but even to those who are awake.
- In one way we may say that the forms of animals which are conserved in the treasury of the imagination pass by the operation of the devil into the organs of inner senses; and in this way it happens in dreams, as has been declared above. And so, when these forms are impressed on the organs of the outer senses, such as sight, they appear as if they were present as outer objects, and could actually be touched.
- For when the body of a man is changed into the body of a beast, or a dead body is brought to life, such things only seem to happen, and are a glamour or illusion; or else the devil appears before men in an assumed body.
- The devil delights in such things, and caused the illusion of the pagans who believed that men and old women were changed into beasts.
- It is witchcraft, not only when anyone is unable to perform the carnal act, of which we have spoken above; but also when a woman is prevented from conceiving, or is made to miscarry after she has conceived. A third and fourth method of witchcraft is when they have failed to procure an abortion, and then either devour the child or offer it to a devil.
- No one does more harm to the Catholic Faith than midwives.
- So when it is argued that God either can or cannot prevent evil, the answer is that He can prevent it, but that for the reasons already shown it does not behoove Him to do so… He neither wishes nor does not wish it, but He permits it for the perfecting of the universe.
Now it is declared that the sins of witches are more grievous than those of the bad angels and our first parents. Wherefore, just as the innocent are punished for the sins of their fathers, so are many blameless people damned and bewitched for the sins of witches.
- Besides, sin which comes from definite malice is heavier than sin which comes from ignorance. But witches, out of great malice, despise the Faith and the sacraments of the Faith, as many of them have confessed
- The evils which are perpetrated by modern witches exceed all other sin which God has ever permitted to be done.
- Accordingly, after the sin of Lucifer, the works of witches exceed all other sins, in hideousness since they deny Him crucified, in inclination since they commit nastiness of the flesh with devils, in blindness of mind since in a pure spirit of malignity they rage and bring every injury upon the souls and bodies of men and beasts, as has been shown from what has been said before.
- An example was brought to our notice as Inquisitors. A town was once rendered almost destitute by the death of its citizens; and there was a rumour that a certain buried woman was gradually eating the shroud in which she had been buried, and that the plague could not cease until she had eaten the whole shroud and absorbed it into her stomach.
- But violent death, whether a man deserves it or not, is always a correction, if it is borne patiently and in grace.
- Necromancy is the summoning of and speech with the dead…And they accomplish this by working some spell over the blood of a man or some animal, knowing that the devil delights in such sin, and loves blood and the pouring out of blood.
- No one doubts that all the damned will be tortured with grievous pains.
- But these are slight matters in comparison with the unholy dreams of witches. For when they do not wish, as has been mentioned above, to be bodily transferred to a place, but desire to see what their fellow-witches are doing, it is their practice to lie down on their left side in the name of their own and of all devils; and these things are revealed to their vision in images. And if they seek to know some secret, either for themselves or for others, they learn it in dreams from the devil, by reason of an open, not a tacit, pact entered into with him. And this pact, again, is not a symbolical one, accomplished by the sacrifice of some animal, or some act of sacrilege, or by embracing the worship of some strange cult; but it is an actual offering of themselves, body and soul, to the devil, by a sacrilegiously uttered and inwardly purposed abnegation of the Faith. And not content with this, they even kill, or offer to devils, their own and others' children.
- So heinous are the crimes of witches that they even exceed the sins and the fall of the bad Angels; and if this is true as to their guilt, how should it not also be true of their punishments in hell?
- They are not content with their own sins and perdition, but ever draw countless others after them.
- For if it is asked why some witches will not confess the truth under even the greatest tortures, while other readily confess their crimes when they are questioned (and some of them, after they have confessed, try to kill themselves by hanging), the reason is as follows. It may truly be said that, when it is not due to a Divine impulse conveyed through a holy Angel that a witch is made to confess the truth and abandon the spell of silence, then it is due to the devil whether she preserves silence or confesses her crimes.
- We have often learned from the confessions of those who we have caused to be burned , that they have not been willing agents of witchcraft.
- But with regard to any bystanders, the witches themselves have often been seen lying on their backs in the fields or the woods, naked up to the very navel, and it has been apparent from the disposition of those limbs and members which pertain to the venereal act and orgasm, as also from the agitation of their legs and thighs, that, all invisibly to the bystanders, they have been copulating with Incubus devils.
- In a town which it is better not to name, for the sake of charity and expediency, when a certain witch received the Body of Our Lord, she suddenly lowered her head, as is the detestable habit of women, placed her garment near her mouth, and taking the Body of the Lord out of her mouth, wrapped it in a handkerchief; and afterwards, at the suggestion of the devil, placed it in a pot in which there was a toad, and hid it in the ground near her house by the storehouse, together with several other things, by means of which she had to work her witchcraft.
- They receive the Lord's Body under their tongue instead of on the top.
- When she had sat down for a little, the witch came, and, as if for the purpose of saluting her, placed both her hands on her stomach; and suddenly she felt the child moving in pain. Frightened by this, she returned home and told the midwife what had happened. Then the midwife exclaimed: "Alas! You have already lost your child." And so it proved when her time came; for she gave birth, not to an entire abortion, but little by little to separate fragments of its head and feet and hands.
- And there are some who, in order to accomplish their evil charms and spells, beat and stab the Crucifix, and utter the filthiest words against the Purity of the Most Glorious Virgin MARY, casting the foulest aspersions on the Nativity of Our Saviour from Her inviolate womb.
- They used the phantasm of a cat, an animal which is, in the Scriptures, an appropriate symbol of the perfidious, just as a dog is the symbol of preachers; for cats are always setting snares for each other. And the Order of Preaching Friars was represented in its first Founder by a dog barking against heresy.
- For in the same way they entice young virgins and boys into their power; for though they might solicit such by means of evil and corrupt men, yet they rather deceive them by magic mirrors and reflections seen in witches' finger-nails, and lure them on in the belief that they love chastity, whereas they hate it. For the devil hates above all the Blessed Virgin, because she bruised his head.
- Finally, we know from experience that the daughters of witches are always suspected of similar practises, as imitators of their mothers' crimes; and that indeed the whole of a witch's progeny is infected…For how else could it happen, as it has very often been found, that tender girls of eight or ten years have raised up tempests and hailstorms, unless they had been dedicated to the devil under such a pact by their mothers.
- It is probable that the devil favours the number three more than any other, for it represents an effective denial of the Holy Trinity.
- Every venereal act outside wedlock is a mortal sin, and is only committed by those who are not in a state of grace…God allows the devil more power over that act than any other human acts, because of its natural nastiness, and because by it the first sin was handed down to posterity.
- There was an erroneous belief that when devils came in the night (or the Good People as old women call them, though they are witches, or devils in their forms) they must eat up everything, that afterwards they may bring greater abundance of stores. Some people give colour to the story, and call them Screech Owls; but this is against the opinion of the Doctors, who say that there are no rational creatures except men and Angels; therefore they can only be devils.
- There must be no negligence in inquiring into such matters in a manner agreeable to God and justice; but such witches must be thrust into prison rather as a matter of punishment than custody, or be exposed to torture, or be sentenced to some punishment.
- There are many who are not sufficiently careful and circumspect, and consider that the depositions of such quarrelsome women should be altogether rejected, saying that no faith can be placed in them, since they are nearly always actuated by motives of hatred. Such men are ignorant of the subtlety and precautions of magistrates, and speak and judge like men who are colour-blind.
- In considering the method of proceeding with a trial of a witch in the cause of faith, it must first be noted that such cases must be conducted in the simplest and most summary manner, without the arguments and contentions of advocates.
- Unless God, through a holy Angel, compels the devil to withhold this help from the witch, she will be so insensible to the pains of torture that she will sooner be torn limb from limb than confess any of the truth.
- They shall indicate to her on the part of the Bishop or Judge that she cannot escape temporal death, and that she should therefore take care for the safety of her soul, and prepare herself to confess her sins and receive the Sacrament of the Eucharist.
and the final word from this wretched book:
Witches are always hated by everybody.
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