----------------------------------------------------------------------- Documented by Goa Desc Documentation Service & circulated by Goa Civic & Consumer Action Network (GOA CAN)<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ph:2252660 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- No one must face trauma I have undergone: victim -----------------------------------------------------------------
It isn't only her good looks that strike you. More her innocence and naivetee, which makes it easy to understand how she could have so easily been taken advantage of.
"She lives on a spiritual level and loves to paint," says her mother. But her innocence has been so horribly traumatised, that her mother and concerned friends fear the 18-year-old may never be the same again.
"I wish they would feel that what they did to me was wrong, and it should not happen to anyone else," says the student from Goa Art College who was raped on the campus over a week ago.
She believes the principal of the college has been well aware of the drugs on the campus and that the canteen contractor's brother is connected to the Anjuna drug circuit, but had done little to investigate matters.
She also believes a lot of other students were aware of the sexual assault on her, but have stayed away from testifying. "Everyone has behaved so strangely, as if they're trying to hide something," she says.
So far no one (except for one colleague) from college has called on her or even tried to find out how she was. "I assume their parents are keeping them away," she says.
But the young girl is determined to go back to college and finish her degree (she is now in the third year), provided, she says, the principal is changed.
Having undergone the ordeal of one government hospital to another, she strongly feels too that a psychiatrist should be at hand to treat and handle cases of emotional trauma and drug abuse of the kind she underwent. -------------------------------------- Interview by Devika Sequeira HERALD 29/05/03 --------------------------------------
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