Just over a week after she was brutally raped by a man known to her, a 21-year-old mother of one is hoping that the police would conduct a speedy and thorough investigation and place the perpetrator before the courts.
Expressing the fear that the crime would be swept under the carpet, the young woman said that since the incident two Wednesdays ago she has been bombarded by calls from the relatives of the man demanding that she “settle the matter.”
Her fear that the crime committed against her may not see the light of day is rooted in the fact that the man has a relative in the police force; a senior functionary of the government agency where he works has suggested the matter be “worked out”; the manner in which she was treated by the policewoman investigating the report and more importantly that the police made her do two medicals –
