I am appalled that police kept the public in the dark about the serial rape situation.<\/p>\n
The excuse that this was done to protect the victims doesn’t hold water because victims of sexual abuse are not identified by police or the media.<\/p>\n
Rather than protect victims, the decision to keep the public ignorant may, in fact, have contributed to an increase in the number of victims.<\/p>\n
I suspect police and perhaps the government were afraid the news would have a negative impact on the tourist industry.<\/p>\n
When will they learn that you can’t keep anything like this under the lid, especially in this day of social media?<\/p>\n
The day the press broke the story, police issued a wanted bulletin. By the next day, two men were arrested for questioning in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n
Wouldn’t it have been smarter to do this in the first place?<\/p>\n
On the one hand, police want the public to share information. On the other, it tried to keep women oblivious to this most heinous crime.<\/p>\n
But then, this type of thinking goes hand in hand with the backward practice of discriminating against women.<\/p>\n
Today, in 2012, Bahamian women married to non-Bahamians are still unable to enjoy the same citizenship rights as their male counterparts.<\/p>\n
Imagine!<\/p>\n
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