GIBBY MAGAZINE

It is troubling enough that such a small proportion of reported rapes make it to court, worse still that so few victims come forward in the first place. But most disturbing of all is the reason why so many people keep their suffering to themselves: because they do not think they will be believed. That rape is still a dirty secret, hedged about with so much blame and shame that victims feel they cannot come forward, is testament to how far we still have to go. There are, of course, great legal difficulties in rape trials. Sexual assault is one of the few crimes where proof lies not in the physical facts of the matter, but in the subjective intentions of those involved. One person's word against another's, with no corroborating witnesses, is highly problematic for a legal system predicated on the concepts of innocent until proven guilty and proof beyond reasonable doubt.This is no call for the wholesale abandonment of basic tenets of justice. But simply to shrug our collective sh...

         Who is a Pedophile? A Pedophile is someone who has a condition of being sexually  interested in children, or sexual activity with children. (Cambridge Dictionary). But in recent times the act has come to become more of an habit/lifestyle than a disorder. These days, people see pedophilia as a norm and don’t see it as something to worry about  anymore, even younger people are most times attracted to people way older. Age really shouldn’t matter in relationships but it sometimes could go wrong. Pedophilia in Male Adults: Cases of pedophilia in grown men are mostly common these days. Many at times we’ve  heard about cases of grown men having sex with young ladies and men some even go as far  as having sex with babies who end up dying in the process or having severe body damage. In old times pedophilia was practiced as a culture in Nigeria, the Hausa tribe would marry  off their sons and daughters to grown men so as to uplift t...