The Confession of a Woman who Faced Appalling Sexual Violence in her Mid-Teens
Even though time has passed, the day when she can heal will surely come.
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Toyo Keizai News || Original Article Here
Journalist: Tamaka KOGAWA.
The article contains the moving testimony of a woman who confesses what her life has been like after experiencing a sexual assault.
Abstract: There are people who, after falling victim to sexual violence but being able to live on beyond the incident, call themselves ‘Survivors’. Even though they have such incidents in their pasts, they are not simply ‘survivors’. What kind of lives do these men and women live today? This article pursues what their present looks like.
One woman now in her 40s, Elly (not her real name), lives overseas working in the floristry industry. When she was in her mid-teens, she was imprisoned and gang-raped. She speaks of how in life, there are some things that you just can’t remember. One is when she was talking to a cool, older boy from school. How he felt like he didn’t fit in, either.
Her father passed away when she was still a young child, and so her mother raised Elly and her sisters whilst working full-time. Whilst on the one hand wanting to put her children through school, on the other hand, Elly’s mother also got a new partner when Elly was in her teens, and so rarely came home. So Elly and her sisters lived virtually alone in their house.
She felt as though she had no home to go to. So, she went to stay with an older school-mate for the spring holidays in his house. He was waiting for her at the station and then, she was kidnapped. She was made to inhale paint thinner and from there, she remembers little. She remembers that they seemed to be drinking cola, but really, they had the paint thinner in the cans.
The article continues on, detailing the terrible things that Elly went through during that period of her life and how she was eventually freed.
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NO NAME: 402 Upvotes, 9 Downvotes
Even though it’s good to read articles like this, it was really hard to get through. I think that making things like this public can lead to society being tougher on criminals, a firmer hand on controls, and really obligates us to implement new provisions.
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NO NAME: 382 Upvotes, 11 Downvotes
Lately, we can see that from the ‘MeToo’ movement and the revelation of sexual abuse from clergymen that there are a lot of cases where victims are especially being silenced.
Is it really good to have a statute of limitations on sexual predators where victims have a period where they must declare that they exist?
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NO NAME: 317 Upvotes, 15 Downvotes
Everyone around me believes that there’s no one like these people [Elly], but I feel like the truth is that they just can’t talk about it.
Japan is really weak when it comes to these people [the criminals].
Even despite there being laws to protect the perpetrator, they don’t protect the victim.
We’re obliged to make laws for the people who’ve experienced this kind of incident, aren’t we?
[The rest of the comment is just correcting a typo made by the author]
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NO NAME: 186 Upvotes, 11 Downvotes
The police must investigate! They must arrest these people!
The victim will go on to live a life of painful thoughts, but that perpetrator and their garbage people will live a normal life. That, I can’t forgive.
186 Upvotes 11 Downvotes
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NO NAME: 140 Upvotes, 5 Downvotes
[In response to comment #2]
I get what you mean, but I feel like the instances of Retaliative Murder for Rape would increase.
Also, I think that the way ahead is the police somehow detecting falsities when they ask ‘with complete truth, tell me in detail what happened’, or ‘were you lured to do this?’ And so on.
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NO NAME: 185 Upvotes, 63 Downvotes
Wow, after all, Japan really is just a third world country when it comes to human rights - even until this day, the top of the bill for the LDP (Liberal Democrat Party) is still female-directed discrimination, isn’t it?
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