Hidden Crimes

This article does a good job in highlighting how the affects of neo-colonialism visit themselves upon children and women who are the victims of rape and sexual abuse in South Africa. Let's not forget that South Africa also has one of the highest murder rates on the globe. It is atrocious that the government has seemingly not taken a more active and assertive role in the incidents that occurred at Oprah's school. When there is no hope and the aftereffects of apartheid are still aparrent these things are a constant reality.

People only correct behavior when they have a reason. Usually fear or consequence maybe moral or righteous. How do you strike fear into a people who are most often born damned by AIDS, Malaria, genoside, and starvation? What moral and righteous path can you provide someone who has no hope? I dont defend these injustices at all, and if it were up to me anyone commiting a lued act on a child would be killed on the spot. It is just something to consider, something hard for us to truly imagine. We can visit and vacation there but if we haven't been south african we cannot understand anything, except the act is wrong.

Mr. Sloppy - We live in a world community. That is to say the combined nature or spirit of all our thoughts and actions create our physical reality. As you raise yourself into this higher plane of thinking you'll understand the giving of oneself that occurs in one part of the world impacts us all anywhere else. However this same LAW is in effect for good as it is for so called evil thoughts and events,.

Wishing this terrible crime happens to someone else is just as bad as being ignorant to the situation. I agree with you that rape of any age or sex should not be tolerated, however if we wish this on any body (regardless of their obvious error in judgement) we are as much at fault as the person doing the act of rape itself.

Child rape or ANY type of rape shuld not be an olympic sport "Swahili Man". If you feel strongly about this, then maybe you should be raped by others and see how you feel, have you no shame when you display your ignorance here ? But I guess you'll never learn until it happens to you, and I hope that happens.

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IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE MALES IN THAT AREA SHOULD BE CASTRATED SINCE THEY WANT TO ACT LIKE A BUNCH OF FRENZIED JUNGLE BUNNIES IN HEAT. THE WOMEN THERE SHOULD NEVER HAVE TO TOLERATE SUCH TREATMENT. DO AWAY WITH THE BARBARIANS SO THE GOOD PEOPLE CAN HAVE A LIFE THERE. WHY AREN'T THEY PUTTING THE RAPISTS IN PRISON FOR LIFE??

Africans love to rape children. It is an epidemic all throughout the continent. But so are drugs and violence. The muslims in Africa who rape women in Sudan jab a knife in the groin of the women they just raped. It is wide spread, horrific and real.

Perth now is trying to make wacko micheal jackson (lower case intentional) seem like a good guy for getting children drunk and raping them in private at neverland. In Dubai child rape is common.

This is an extremely difficult case to watch, because there are those who are real victims as children, and then there are those families who will manipulate the circumstances of the truth, manipulate their child, and set people up at any cost to set up and target innocent professionals for monetary gain and power over them, so every case is different, they are all political, and sometimes it is difficult to discern which case needs to be targeted, and which cases are manipulation and false claims for a power play over someone. I hope that the truth is found in this case, and that Oprah can recover......thank you for allowing my opinion.....skd500

Africa is blessed to have been chosen by an enigmatic personality in the person of Oprah Winfrey. What happened is not anymore new to the Africans who have been suffering such criminal acts that they may take it as an ordinary occurence already. But by Oprah's intervention, they were given a ray of hope that there is still cure and that it should not be allowed to go unnoticed and unpunished. Oprah showed them that it is most hideous and something can be done about it, to stop it. She showed them courage and strenght of character that perhaps the only way that can open their eyes and learn to fight it themselves. What Oprah started can only be sustained with the involvement of the Africans themselves. Oprah cannot do it all for them. I encourage them that this is the time now to stand up and be heard and learn to fight for your own right.

I am sorry for all those people who had been in a sex crime. I think Oprah made that school because she wants to help all girls who want to study and have a better life. Education is the key of success and Oprah wants to provide that to them. Although, Africa has a lot of issues and one of them is the sex abuse crimes. It is really sad that happent in Oprah school. I thought that school will be save environment for all those girls but it's not. I just hope this ugly situation have a good ending or at list have a good solution because those girls only want to be happy,save, and educated.

Note that the perpetrator of this sex crime is a WOMAN! But of course we cannot blame women for anyuting in this society, sinc womena re victim of patriarchal oppression . So the article trie to *** blame to society and (men, of course);


"perhaps because of the sexually freer environment that girls and women are experiencing and the portrayal of women as sex objects. "

But maybe even this female author sensed that shifting blame to soceity and men do not fly in this case, so she desparately try to mmuddle the issue....


"Most also come from extremely difficult, disorganized circumstances in which affection, love and relationships are deeply rooted in sexual behavior."

Typical Newsweek job.

Why in the world did Oprah open this school in Africa, when we have so much need in our own country, especially in the inner cities? If Oprah want to help black kids, my opinion is she should do it in her own country. This also goes for all these celebrities adopting "poor" children from third world countries. We have enough kids up for adoption in the US - no need to go to third world countries, especially those that have antagonistic views of the US.

Why in the world did Oprah open this school in Africa, when we have so much need in our own country, especially in the inner cities? If Oprah want to help black kids, my opinion is she should do it in her own country. This also goes for all these celebrities adopting "poor" children from third world countries. We have enough kids up for adoption in the US - no need to go to third world countries, especially those that have antagonistic views of the US.