CHILDRAPE

Suja Jones Mazurier:

“I cannot bear this anymore. He is getting support everywhere and I am faced with suspicion or isolation from everyone: Police, close friends, NGOs, public, media and most importantly even my own lawyers and activists.

He is making derogatory statements without a sense of guilt of the crime that he has committed on my daughter for such a long period. Himself, his mother and father are speaking against me and portraying him as an angel. Media that states they have to get his version whenever they contact me, fails to enquire me on the statements that are being made by him against me and others. Nobody wants to speak out for me. Why? I am unable to find answers.

I am amazed to see that the same media that is shouting hoarse on atrocities being committed on women, fails to even hear me when I shout that my child, a very young daughter was continuously raped and sodomised by my husband. Whatever happens in the court, his version is promptly reported, without even bothering to ask me my version. In all the rape cases that we are getting reports in the media, no version of the accused is presented. They are screened, I ask this question to media. If getting the version of the other side is essential, why don’t all of you go talk to Nirbhaya’s rapists? Why? Is it because they are not white, European, charming, handsome good speakers? Or is it because she is dead her death speaks the truth automatically? Is death the only way to prove one is right? What is the use of the evidence then? Just burn it all and sentence Suja to death. That is better.

Just give my children to him and his parents who are supporting him so closely when I have no one NONE with me. If you have doubts about my case please don’t pretend to support me. Just back off or go add to Pascal’s ever growing line of supporters. I cannot bear one more look of suspicion, one more question “But why did you…? Why did you not…?” I did what I had to. I took my child to the doctors. They gave their reports, several doctors from several institutions with several reports. If these don’t count then what is the use of fighting?

The French Consulate supports him, receiving from him secret correspondence that maligns me while at the same time refusing to listen to what I have to say pretending to be ‘neutral’. They take into account Pascal’s ‘confidential letter’ and refuse to return my children’s passports to me that they took away under the pretext of ‘getting their VISAs renewed’ (They promised to return them to me once this was done). The French Consul admitted to calling the Commissioner of Police, Bangalore requesting him not to arrest Pascal in the early stages. Then he tells me, “The Indian Police should not have listened to me since this was an unofficial request.’

I visited the office of the Investigation officer along with my advocate on two occasions to get the second DNA report from the Investigative Officer. The first time he asked us to change our application letter stating that it ought to have been addressed to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), I change the address it to DCP, on receiving the same, he said it ought to have been addressed to Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP). I change the address again and present it to him. He says that my request cannot be considered. Being the complainant I requested him to at least allow me to see the report. I was refused. He said that I should come through the proper channel!!!!!!! Why? Now I understand why…The report shows that the swabs tested were not my daughter’s. (Pascal said that in his interview to Headlines Today)

They have made known the contents of that report to the accused and he has used it to his benefit on National television claiming that the swabs did not belong to either him or that of my daughter.

So actually in India, everything works to the advantage of the accused, no matter what the nature of his crime or his nationality – 1) He got the swabs of my daughter switched with the help of the police so that his sperm would not be found

2) He shouts that he is innocent based on the first DNA report that shows some other man’s sperm, claiming that it ‘exonerates him’.

3) When the second DNA report is revealed to him by the police , he realizes that the truth of the swabs being switched will get revealed. So he shouts that the Baptist Hospital doctors gave someone else’s swabs to the police.

4) He threatens certain sections of the media (both Indian and French) that have been reporting the story objectively so far into silence.

5) On national television he gives veiled threats to me and all ‘organizations supporting me’. He repeatedly defends the police and says that they are ‘not being allowed to do their job properly’( because I speak out and make written complaints each time they harass me and even my daughter).

And what are the police, the institutions doing for the victim? ‘It is sub-judice we cannot …’or ‘We are invegtigating into it.’ Or the press that says ‘We cannot report your case since there is nothing new, it is not a big enough story’ etc. In this melee everyone seems to have forgotten the suffering that my daughter has undergone at the hands of my husband. When all the doctors’ reports speak volumes. He is able to claim ‘innocence’. When the police refuse to produce the evidence against him that is available, when they fail to conduct the investigation the way it ought to have been, when the police are all claiming him to be not necessarily guilty and when they throw aspersions against me, put words into my statement and the statements of the witnesses that help him, he has every reason to be very happy with the investigation, he has great respect for the police and the system for very good reasons.

I am exhausted. When the time comes I will be forced to give up my children to the ‘nice white man who has his good white parents and the French Consulate and the Indian police and more to support him. After all it is true that I am alone. I have no one. It is more difficult for me to bring up my three children alone than for him Even at any time if he is convicted the whole society …’societies’ – French and Indian will only look at him and his parents with sympathy and me with contempt.

I should never have been born. I should never have gotten married or had children. I should have been killed at birth. This level of suspicion and isolation on someone who is trying to find justice for her daughter who was raped and sodomized by her own manipulative, cunning, handsome, charming, intelligent father is not just unfair, it is criminal. And why? Because the GREAT ONE opens his mouth. When HE opens his mouth all the evidence against him is automatically eliminated.It is easy for me now to see how and why women do not come out when such things happen in their homes. It is easy for me to see why women are driven to take their lives.

The criminal is not just Pascal. It is the whole society and the institutions who gather behind him or decide to ‘be neutral’ and not take sides or pretend to support me but are actually very skeptic in spite of the evidence against him.

Suja Jones Mazurier”

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