the violinist (br3ak_d_sil3nc3) wrote, @ 2003-11-01 05:26:00

Current mood:	Hopeless
Current music:	Duncan Sheik - Songbird

Breeding Sexual Violence
My mom received a letter from an anonymous sender last Thursday. At first she thought it was a concerned parent, but I told her, it was probably written by another student. The sender told my mom that this female student will be dropping out from school. My mom teaches in a public high school in Quezon City. Usual public school setting - poor students and overpopulated. I personally witnessed how students failed to finish high school in that school. When I was younger, my mom brought me along with her to her school and I would listen to their stories. Also for the past three years I'm the one who writes my mom's action paper for the school. I did some studies on the drop out rates in her school and I read several testimonials and surveys about the students' problems and dilemma.

But the news from the letter shocked me. I was stunned for a moment after reading it. The student who wrote the letter confided to my mom that this girl was raped by members of the fraternity she belonged to (probably her own classmates). The poor teen is 2 months pregnant and ran away from home with her boyfriend (I assumed he's not one of the rapists). The bf is a drop-out too, no work - the usual tambay. The sender must be a friend of the girl raped because you can feel the concern from her. I'm concerned for the rape victim. I'm sure there were other cases too. A few years ago, days before Christmas, my whole family visited one of a student of my mom who was raped by his father. She was staying in an institution in Alabang that shelters battered and raped women. After a week she was tansferred in a center inTagaytay. I don't know what happened to her now.

My father was fuming mad after reading the letter; my mom is deeply concerned. Both the letter sender and the raped girl don't belong to her advisory class, but it's a good thing the sender trusted my mom enough to tell the story. I'm hoping there would be justice for the girl and to everybody else who shares the same tragedy.

	vainpire 2003-11-02 01:58 (link)
	The letter sender could have been the rape victim herself but she can't bring herself to personally confide everything to your mother. This is possible, don't you think? Victims tend to blame themselves sometimes and this is really a sad thing. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	br3ak_d_sil3nc3 2003-11-02 05:02 (link)
	Probably (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)