Badlapur sexual assault: Parents' outcry grows, call for strict safety steps

Updated On: 27 August, 2024 12:47 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent

The horrendous incidents of sexual assault in a renowned Badlapur school by a staffer and the absolute cover-up by the management has made parents ponder if institutes that demand a whopping amount as fees can provide even basic safety to their kids

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The accused in the Badlapur sexual assault case has been remanded in judicial custody for 14 days. Pic/PTI

A country seething in anger. Questioning if anything has indeed changed on ground for women and children 12 years after the Nirbhaya incident. While the country was still gripping under the horrors of the brutal rape and murder of a 31-year-old bright and kind doctor at her workplace, Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, another incident of sexual assault came from the prosperous state of Maharashtra. This time, two four-year-olds had been attacked, in their very school – a place that is considered to be the second safest after home.

As news about the incident spread, questions over the incident and vulnerability of school children only started getting deeper instead of reaching satisfactory conclusions. Yes, the 21-year-old male attendant has been arrested. But the question is, why was a male attendant deployed at a girls’ washroom? How are staffers in schools appointed so casually without taking into consideration even the basic safety aspects? Do schools that charge whopping fees from parents have no accountability? Are they only going to lose their licenses while their officials and management walk out free? Sexual assaults leave deep trauma in the mind of a survivor. Shouldn’t the punishments get more stringent so that an example is set and there is deterrence against such crimes?

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