December 23, 2004
Sex-case Delhi schoolboy bailed
How tough it must be to be a teenager in India. Those poor kids involved in the video sex scandal are being humiliated and repudiated and they continue to dominate the Indian and now International news. My heart goes out to them. What they did was stupid and in poor taste, but not worthy of such attention and so much dishonor. Moral standards are obviously high in India, but what about compassion?
The latest news reported by the BBC is that an Indian court granted bail to the 17 year old schoolboy who allegedly recorded a sexual act between himself and a 16-year-old girl on his mobile phone. The juvenile court ordered the boy, 17, not to leave the country.
In a case that has shocked many Indians, the prosecution had demanded he be put in psychiatric care for displaying "animal instincts".
However the court, after reading social welfare reports, said the boy came from a decent family and did not have any history of "delinquency".
The court ordered the boy, who cannot be named, to undergo a month of counselling and told his parents to supply weekly behavioural reports.
However, police and prosecutors had called for the boy to be kept in juvenile detention.
A police petition said: "The act of the boy was obscene, depraved and showed his animal instincts and he should undergo psychiatric treatment and counselling.
"The boy has been continuously tampering with evidence, including destroying the cell phone with which he recorded the objectionable pictures." Can you blame him?
The girl involved has reportedly been sent to Canada by her parents.
The teenagers were both expelled from their school."
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