A Young Girl Got Raped
We talk about rape as just a four-letter word but as you read down this story, it might change how you look at this four-letter word. I am sure this story will also make you have special respect for nurses and what they go through every day. Nursing careers involves mental, physical and deep emotional content that only a few have an idea. How about AIDS and HIV and rape? Depression, suicide and all sorts of illnesses? Are you ready to read on? Ok.
Every time you wake up and see the sun coming up, say a prayer and thank your creator that you are up and well. I have been holding this story for a while now but it keeps burning deep in my veins and throbbing my vocal cords to tell it out and today, I decided to tell it, though not in to the true details.
As a nurse, I am going to tell you a true story that is intense enough to make your emotions and anger to catapult. I once took my day assignment and I had this patient who was wheelchair ridden and as usual, I started with assessment for the basic needs and pain. This was a young man at a tender age of mid 20’s and I was interested to know how he ended in wheelchair. Indeed, he was in pain, much more pain than any medicine out there could cure.
I will use “Gamma” as his name for confidentiality reasons. Gamma got involved in a self-employment business, selling subscription magazines where he made a commission per every subscription brought in to his mother company. He went from door to door selling these magazines and had built a large down line under his belt paying him enough to live a comfortable life.
The sun rose one morning as usual and he went to his planned neighborhoods selling his magazines subscriptions as usual. He had no idea that by the time sun set that evening, his life would take a nose dive and would never been the same again. Pain, agony, humiliation and death were about to hit.
Gamma happened to be a victim of circumstance, something that might sound a little bit decorated to be real. But this is the truth that hurts to the bone. He happened to be in a crime scene where rape and child molestation had occurred and police were on the hunt for the man who had allegedly abused 13-years old over and over again for many days. The 13 years old had given information that it is a young white young man who always carried a briefcase and sometimes wore a hoodie.
The abused had been put in fear by the rapist that she was afraid to tell it to her parents on fear the rapist would kill her. This had made the rapist plans go successfully without being noticed. The dark day for Gamma started as a bright day, making several subscriptions at the beginning of the day. When Gamma approached the residence of the 13 years old, although he had never been in that neighborhood, the 13-year old confirmed to police, who’re hiding in the house that he was the one. Gamma approached the door as usual but to the girl, “He is coming again”.
Gamma got himself arrested faster than he took his next breadth and the young troubled teen maintained that he was the one responsible for serial rapes. He only happened to be a victim of circumstances, carrying a briefcase as described, young white man and happened to be there around the same time the girl had described to police and her parents.
Investigations take time as due process of law. Thousands if not millions are in jails and prisons today for crimes they never committed. Being in jail or prison for child abuse by itself is virtually a death sentence. If you do not have an idea what I am talking about, watch the Shaw shank redemption.
Gamma was taken in jail despite his desperate effort to deny and explain his situation. A warm delicious dinner was baking for hungry prisoners… and this dinner was Gamma. He stayed in jail for 9 months before he was acquainted of any wrongdoing but the damage had occurred from his first night in prison. I cannot remember whether he spent the 9 months in jail or prison but it didn’t matter for what happened to him.
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