On Jan 10, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Stephen Dias <[email protected]> wrote: " WE had earlier during the Portuguese regime a top Judge of Goa from “Tribunal de Relacao which was later called that as High Court”. He died some years back. He too like Ganguli had similar relations with one of his employee stenographer. The PWD workers found many contraceptives in the sewage piping “toilet” and than the whole of office came to know about it. This appears to be common with high dignitaries in India in high offices. I have read today in NT dt 11.1.2014 titled “Another Law intern accuses SC judge of sexually harassing her. Slowly skeletons are coming out from the cupboard! Of course there are few excellent judges in Goa in that respect.".
My dear Stephen, Please accept that a significant amount of 'genetic input' occurs all over the world. Some of it is even said to be an adulterous relationship involving single women and married men who may or may not be spouses of close friends of the women (and vice versa). As long as it is truly consensual relationship between two adults, HOW does a scenario akin to the one you have alleged definitively become a case of 'molestation'? I will submit to you that 'molestation' is a case of violence using power; an affair is not always that. HOW do you know, for sure, that the 'Relacao' judge MOLESTED anybody, and did not allegedly have an AFFAIR with somebody? As one who has voluntarily worked with victims of molestation and other forms of abuse (esp children), I find the glib-misrepresentation (be it negligent or intentional ) and misuse of the word 'molestation' to be detrimental to cases of actual and very dangerous molestations. I will further submit to you that even IF you were standing with your hands in your pocket in a ferry in Goa and a young 12 year old accused you of having 'touched' her (no witnesses), you would have to prove that you did NOT do it. It would be worse IF the girl or her (say) uncle or uncle's friend happened to be a lawyer who did not really like you. You could even be accused, tried and found guilty on the internet. (Do you remember the 2003 Goa College of Arts case? Whatever happened to the young lads who were put through the ringer before it was determined that the accusations were not true?) And while this drama goes on and lives get destroyed, actual molestations would carry on unabated - and the prosecution of those cases, as expected, adversely affected. I also suggest that when something is not yet proved, it should be referred to as 'alleged'. It appears as this word slips far too commonly from the lexicon of Goa based writers and even lawyers. jc Please see this, yet un-updated article http://www.colaco.net/1/gca2003.htm
