How I caught a courier boy's crime and what happened thereafter!
How I caught a courier boy's crime and what happened thereafter!
This incident happened three days ago. My son had just returned from school in the afternoon and we were settling down to have our lunch when the doorbell rang. I opened the door to find my maid in an agitated state with a few other people clustered around a courier boy. She was holding on to the courier boy (a young boy of about 16-17 years old) and was trying to keep him from getting into the elevator.
On seeing this commotion, I asked her to explain what was going on, and she told me that the courier boy had been misbehaving with her two daughters aged 8 years and 10 years respectively and with two other girls who were their friends. One of them was 5 years old. The girls in question were also standing there and were looking very upset and crying. Seeing the girls, I realized that something serious has happened, and so asked her to calm down and tell me exactly what happened.
In the meantime, the courier boy was trying to make excuses, and make good his escape in the elevator, but my maid blocked his way and made sure he couldn’t move from there. She then proceeded to tell me the details of what happened.
Apparently, the courier boy, under the pretext of trying to find the correct address, asked the girls for directions. The girls had gone down to the local store and were on their way back home and just coming up the elevator, when the courier boy also got into it with them.
Once inside the elevator, he started talking to the girls (four of them) and then also began fondling one of the girls and tried to mo!est her. When the other girls objected to his actions, he started fingering them too. They then got out of the lift and tried to get away, but he followed them to the staircase behind, which is generally quite isolated. Here he continued with his mo!estation of my maid’s daughter who is 8 years old. She struggled and managed to get away, and cried for help. In the meantime, my maid came out and realized something was going on and caught the courier boy.
I understood that this guy had been up to no good. So, asked him for the name and address for the firm where he was employed. I took the delivery sheet from his hands and told him to stay there, while I made a call. I went inside the house to the telephone to make a call to our local police for help. The boy, now starting to feel trapped and under threat of being caught, followed me inside and tried to tell me that the phone number written on the sheet was no good. He would give me another number to call. I was still trying to connect to the police, and had just got through when the boy cut the phone.
This really got me mad. I told him to go out and wait there while I made the call. He kept trying to snatch the sheet from my hands, but I held on to it and told my maid to take him out physically, which she did. I then managed to contact the security people and told them to look out for this boy and to not allow him to go out. That done, I then turned to find that the guy had run away. Well, I still had his sheet with me and knew he wouldn’t be able to go back to his boss without it.
As matters turned out, the police apprehended him and there he confessed to his misdeeds after some treatment. We all went to give our statements and identify him as the culprit. We found out that his boss had brought him back so he could be punished, and besides he also wanted his delivery sheet back.
To sum things up, we let him go without registering a case for a number of reasons. One, the civil police would take its own sweet time to register the case, take statements from all, and then we would have to go through the whole “legal” proceedings which would take years together. Two, The police are also notorious for making money from all parties concerned. Three, The boy was not even 18 years old, and so he couldn’t be put in the lock up. He would have been sent to a worse place, which would have probably turned him into a proper hard-core criminal. Four, The courier company would have to be shut down for employing a boy under age (The Child Labor Act).
The boss of the courier company had enough to worry about. So, we negotiated with him to compensate the two families who were affected and let them go. I made the boy apologize to the two mothers and explained to him that this was one chance he was getting to change his ways and choose a better future for himself.
I don’t know if he will change his ways or not. But, I felt we ought to give him a chance before ruining his life altogether. He was only 17 years old! Maybe, (I am being optimistic here) this was just the first time he tried to do something like that, I don’t know and can’t know. But, well, I have hope…..!
What do you think?
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You shouldn't have let him go
Child molesting shouldn't be treated like the way u did
Rawnak. The incident may create a feeling in the boy that he can repeat the same and escape with free hands....Anyway i appreciate your kindness towards others and good heart. But please be careful as the world is too bad nowadays.......
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Actually ...
I did not take that decision on my own, I asked my maid what she wanted to do, as she was the one affected and her children. I did my duty to inform her of all her choices and had to explain the judicial system too!
You see, she is a working lady and quite poor. She really didn't seem very happy that she would have to drag her daughters to the civil police and then have them question them the way they do!
Then she was scared that she would be running around the courts to testify against the boy, which would take ages, years!
I did tell her that I would help her as much as I could and was willing to go to the police and register the case. But, after thinking over it for sometime and conferring with her husband on the matter, she decided to let him go. The other lady (mother of the other two girls) has no husband and is living alone with the kids here.
(She did slap him around a bit before she let him go)!
{You see, we are in a govt job at present and living in their flats, so the maid is with me only for a year or so till we get transfered to some other place, and she would be forced to look for some other place to work.}
Child Labor?
I agree with your actions here, although I think he should get some proper punishment or get sent to a correction institution or possibly psychiatric treatment, but if these type of institutions don't exist then it's probably better not to let him do time with hard criminals. In one way it was also wise to spare the girls from the burden of a lenghty legal process and questioning that might have put an even bigger emotional scar on them. However,is it illegal for a 17 year old to work as a courier? I can't see how this qualifies for child labor?
Yes, Martin123
You may have a point there. I just checked out the child labor law, and it says children below "14" years should not be employed in places that could be harmful to their health or wellbeing....
And we are only too aware of how corrupt all the judiciary system is in India.
You are right, I was and am still only worried about what the little girls are going through. The girl who suffered the most, had fever the whole night.
I myself, have not slept well these past three days. In fact even now I feel at unease. I don't know if I did the right thing or not.
I could see the delimma of the mother, on one hand she wanted to punish the boy, and on the other hand she also wished to protect her daughter's dignity.
I could see her anguish so clearly and have realized that it is not a very easy job to be a "judge" or a "jury" to be able to punish people.
All the other people (the security personnel, my husband and myself) actually wanted to register the case.
I wrote this story, only to bring out this aspect. The anguish of the mother and the victims. The mother, satisfied herself by hitting him a few times, but again, I am sure that while she was doing that, she must have also realized that the damage was already done. No amount of hitting the boy would undo, what was done.
I am not really sure of what type of correctional institutes there are in India. And, I am not really convinced of the fact that it would do any good to the boy either. "He" would probably be abused there similarly! So, what do we achieve then? But, maybe I could investigate on this angle! (psychiatric help may be a better choice, I think!)
Thanks for the suggestion. I will look into it.
Agree
with your decision. However I do feel that he got off scott free. There should have been some kind of punishment for him so that he will learn a lesson. Right now, he just knows that he can get away with it.
Punishment??
Champagndreams, the boy will be sacked from his job. He got third degree treatment from the local police (about 1 hour) and thereafter, he seemed quite subdued!
I don't think he got away "scot free" like you say! And remember, he is also just a kid, himself. Besides, the boss had to shell out compensation for the two families. I am sure that he will get it out of the boy (or his family) in some way, sooner or later!
Speaking of the boy, he wasn't really all that into aggression. He appeared quite meek and mild. The fact that we women could push him around physically with no fear to personal injury, speaks a lot about his character!
I've seen boys of his age showing real aggression and violence. He could have hit me or my maid at any time and got away. But, he didn't. He seemed genuinely "afraid" and scared of the consequences.
Coming to the punishment part..How much punishment is really "good enough"? What are you trying to achieve by that punishment?
When your child does something wrong, how much do you punish him/her? And do you think they will never do that particular act ever again in their lives?
It's easy for the uninitiated!
People who have not been subjected to difficult situations, like yours, can and will continue passing judgements. Fact is you showed great compassion, alacrity and swift thinking while handling the situation. I have known many people who freeze in the face of potential danger and let the destiny take it's course.
As far as punishment is concerned, there are so many cases which get settled out of court after being dragged for so long. The families did get some compensation. It's the same.
Moreover, i feel, one learns a bigger lesson being close to hell once rather than being in hell. Your timely actions have passed very subtle lessons to the culprit about what could have been and that crime is not a cakewalk.
Kudos to you. You ought to be proud of yourself.
I feel much better...
now that you put it like that. I realized that it was easy to pass judgments when you are not personally involved with a situation, however, the scene changes dramatically the moment you are put in that situation. For eg. it is much easier for me to tell the mother to pursue the case, whereas, the mother has many other things to consider before she makes that decision.
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Well, not ~definite~ exile ... he still lives among you! lol But he is doomed to be ~verklempt~---to be shunned invitingly, to be alone in the crouded room, etc.
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You are So right....Mythman
Sigh....! You do have a way with words. How do you do this?
Yes...That's a worse form of "punishment" i think. Living with a stigma is not an easy thing to shrug away. And being among people and yet lonely and cast away is the worst!
That's why, god says....
"Forgive and forget!"
Which is the MOST difficult thing to do!
What Gets Me About Your Story is...
If this teenage pervert ended up in the custody of the police dept, and he openly confessed to them upon interrogation.... why the heck can't they just book him on criminal charges and be done with it?
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If only it were that simple
then crime would have been wiped out from the surface of this earth! No, apparently they can't just lock up anybody without a "written" complaint from the person affected! And that is what everybody wants to avoid!
I Wonder...
I wonder if he was molested as a small child...I think, all things considered, if those little girls are okay (emotionally and physically), that you did the best anybody could do...He knows what he did is not only wrong, but will not be tolerated, and perhaps after all of this he will try to walk upon a better path. Had he gone through the judicial system and then was able to walk away, he would know next time that he could get away with it...maybe this will make him fear what might happen enough not to try it again.
+1 Rawnak and more for taking a stand and doing the right thing.
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i completely disagree
i admire your ability to consider this pervert's future but i cannot agree with his not being prosecuted. my reasoning arise from being a victim of someone like him. these girls are young, VERY young, and the psychological damage he has done will likely not be apparent for many years. the odds are that the affect of this act will show up as they grow into puberty. at that point they will either completely withdraw from boys or they will become the town slut. both outcomes means society will shun THEM and not the criminal who caused this. this is a somewhat control emotional response but i cannot express how strongly i feel that these girls are not being given the justice they deserve. they did nothing wrong. they are victims. personally i think he needs to be nailed to a building that is on fire and then given a choice about what he wants...life without his weapon or death.
Thanks Lisadee
Frankly, I am not bothered about the perverts future. It can't be very bright and if he continues on this path he will end up in hell!
As far as the girls are concerned, I think you are exaggerating it a little. Not all individuals react to a situation in a similar manner. It all depends on how the parents deal with their trauma and their own personal relationships in the family.
I don't know what kind of experience you had, or how traumatic it was, so it's difficult to say anything on that score.
The scene in Indian families (specially the poor) is not conducive to a healthy one in any case. They all live in cramped houses with little or no privacy among themselves. Therefore the kids are very much aware of their own sexuality or that of their parents, much before the "normal" age! This itself breeds perverts!!!
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Rawnak, you're absolutely right about the girls; but I'm afraid your thinking "the boy is headed to hell" might be mistaken for 'he's headed for a boiling lava-pot with fire and pointy-things.'
That's not hell. Hell is just 'dead unconsciousness.' Everyone is 'headed for hell'; it's just that some of us know whether it's temporary or not.
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LoL....Mythman!
You really don't let anyone get away with anything! You are right about the "hell" part!
What I actually meant by "hell" was --His personal hell! And not really 'he's headed for a boiling lava-pot with fire and pointy-things.' LOL...Although, you are right that this word does conjure up that image precisely, of what hell must be like!
Oh, God! Am I turning into Mythman!;-))
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I would totally avoid 'calling it' a hell. What you're talking about is kind of the result of 'failing' a test/test-series in life.
(When I say 'failing,' I simply mean 'not yet passing.' Kind of like 'jumping life's hoops': if you don't quite make it through the first several attempts, it's usually still hanging there whether you try again now or -later.)
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