It's an equally fucked up world we live in

When I first picked up a book called From Victim to Offender: How Child Sexual Abuse Victims Become Offenders By Freda Briggs, I was shocked, offended, and a little nauseated by the shit supposedly happened, in Australia. Am I to believe some of the stuff in this book, especially those atrocious acts perpetuated by the Catholic Church?

These child abuse cases seem pretty wack, so filled with tabloid drama that I doubt anything I read covered the true extent of the psychological and emotional ties that victims and offenders often develop in twisted ways. As a reader of world wide news however, and often in different languages (well, two and a half) I did become enlightened to a shocking but obvious truth.

The citizens of the world are equally fucked up regardless of race and culture.

After hearing that Australia has finally joined the race for kicking the morality bucket and finally having a perv to call our own, allow me to present to you some of the great acts of depravity in the world today.

From Saudi Arabia

A 10-year-old bride was returned last Sunday to her 80-year-old husband by her father who discovered her at the home of her aunt with whom she has been hiding for around 10 days. A Saudi local newspaper said the husband, who denies he is 80 in spite of claims by the girl's family, accused the aunt of meddling in his affairs. "My marriage is not against Shariah. It included the elements of acceptance and response by the father of the bride," he said. He added that he had been engaged to his wifés elder sister and that this broke off as she wanted to continue with her education. "In light of this, her father offered his younger daughter. I was allowed to have a look at her according to Shariah and found her acceptable," he said.
http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME03.WAM30165.html

From Iran

MEMBERS of Iran's feared Basij militia forcibly marry female virgin prisoners the night before scheduled executions, raping their new "wives" and making it religiously acceptable to execute them, a self-professed member of the paramilitary group says.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25815969-401,00.html

From Italy

Italian 'Fritzl': Police listened in as suspect raped his daughter
Shocked police listened in as an Italian man who is being compared with Josef Fritzl allegedly raped his own daughter after a 25 year reign of terror, it has emerged. I am not shitting you folks, the cops listened to him rape his daughter before arresting him. Go legal enforcement.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/joseffritzl/5066402/Italian-Fritzl-Police-listened-in-as-suspect-raped-his-daughter.html

From China

The tragic case of a father who decided to lock his mentally ill daughter in a pigsty for four years rather than care for her, not even bothering to clothe her, has shocked many in China. Rescuers would eventually find the woman, a living skeleton living naked in the filthy confines of the pigsty, behind a door which was chained shut and windows which were boarded over, a victim of utter neglect. Pics below, I can’t find the Chinese article.
http://chiquita.blog17.fc2.com/blog-entry-4507.html

Bought fifteen years ago, at the age of 21, from a slave trader for a mere $300 by a 50-year-old farmer, the procured wife’s existence was one on par with the animals with which she shared her outhouse accommodation, kept naked and shackled in filth all year round, freezing in winter and food for insects in summer. She was rescued when a journalist found out. The wife was also lent to the farmer’s neighbours for labour among other recreational activities.
http://bbs.news.163.com/bbs/photo/87602638.html

For America.

For 18 years, a registered sex offender managed to elude detection as he pulled off what authorities are calling an unfathomable crime, kidnapping and raping 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard, keeping her as his secret captive for nearly two decades and fathering two of her children.Phillip Garrido, now 58, together with his wife, snatched 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard from a street near Lake Tahoe in California in 1991 whilst her stepfather looked on. A manhunt ensued, but failed to find any trace of the girl. He imprisoned her in a “compound” at his home in the Californian city of Antioch for 18 years, using her as a sex slave and keeping her discretely in a tent. He would father two daughters by her, now 11 and 15, who he kept together with her in captivity. None of them would be given medical attention or be allowed to attend school, and lived in near complete isolation.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090828/ap_on_re_us/us_kidnapped_girl_found

The Classic Austria Story which started the whole hysteria

Residents of a small Austrian town are said to be in shock after details came to light of a house-of-horrors where a 73-year-old man imprisoned and abused his daughter for 24 years in a windowless basement. Police arrested Josef Fritzl, believed to have fathered seven children with his 42-year-old daughter Elisabeth, who told police that he had abused her from the age of 11. Fritzl originally lured her into a basement in Amstetten, 130 km (80 miles) west of Vienna, in August 1984, where she was drugged and handcuffed. The story finally came to light after Elisabeth's 19-year-old daughter, Kerstin, was hospitalized with a serious illness together with a note from Elisabeth on April 19. Following an appeal, the elderly father released his captives, telling his wife that Elisabeth and the children had decided to return home. When police questioned Elisabeth, however, the full extent of her ordeal started to unfold. Kersten and two other of Elisabeth's children, aged five and 18, lived in the basement with their mother, while the other three were raised by the father and his wife, and another child died shortly after being born.
http://en.rian.ru/world/20080428/106071799.html

Japan

A mother and her female friend, both 19, have been arrested for torturing the mother’s 2-year-old daughter for amusement, immersing her in boiling hot water and laughing at the ensuing agony caused. Their motivation was that they found the infant’s crying and screaming “funny”, as it reminded them of a famous comedian on Japanese TV whose act involved being made to eat boiling hot noodles. They hatched their scheme watching the girl spit out hot meat dumplings, it reminding them of the comedian. They soon had a baby tub filled with boiling hot water, into which they forced the girl, holding her down in the water for a minute whilst pouring more scalding hot water onto her from a bowl, and apparently watching and laughing at the suffering caused as the girl rolled around on the floor afterward screaming “It’s hot.” The daughter was hospitalised with severe scalding to both legs, and it was there that a doctor doubted the mother’s explanation of “a spill of hot water from a pot.” After the case was refereed to specialists, an investigation soon uncovered what had transpired. The mother admitted her guilt after being exposed: “I did an inexcusable thing to my daughter.” She explained: “She irritated me by not doing as she was told. I remembered the comedian’s boiling noodles act, and decided to punish her.”The mother’s infant son also suffered suspicious injuries consistent with being swung by the neck, and police are now investigating this possibility too.The husband claimed not to have noticed any of this.
Translated by Sansaku Complex - http://blog.livedoor.jp/dqnplus/archives/1256684.html http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/04/29/mother-boils-baby-it-was-fun-to-hear-her-scream/

And despite the shit-load more morally apprehensive sordid tales I have read in my line of work among others, this last one is… hmm, well it happens.

Controversial Bullying in Malaysian Schools come to light.


Malaysian School Girls Bullies. - The funniest home videos are here
See for yourself.