Vishakhapatnam: The girl told her family that along with her some of her fellow students in the college had also been sexually abused, in the heart-wrenching message to her family she wrote to her elder sister, “Sorry didi, I have to go.”
“Don’t get tense, listen to me, I can’t tell you why I am leaving and, even if I do, you won’t understand. Please forget about me. I am really sorry. Mom and dad, I am grateful that you gave birth to me and brought me up. My chapter is coming to an end,” she wrote in Telugu to her parents.
“You may ask why I am not complaining to the faculty, but that won’t help. They (her harassers) have taken my photos and are threatening me. There are other girls as well. We aren’t being able to tell anyone and we are not being able to avoid college either. We are caught in between. If I file a police complaint or approach the authorities, they will release my photos on social media,” she further added.
This incident reveals the painful reality of how we are failing to protect young girls and women as a society, where a victim of sexual assault felt suicide was her only escape. We need better support for survivors, stronger laws against harassment, and a society that unequivocally condemns all forms of violence against women.
