How Can One Kill One's New Born In Such A Savage Manner?
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By Sunil Garodia
First publised on 2020-09-30 11:50:32
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How cruel, horrifying and heartless can a human being be? This question comes up in one's mind after reading a report in the media about the finding of a body of a 2-day-old girl in Bhopal that was brutally punctured more than 100 times with a screwdriver. The police have not been able to establish the infant's identity and have thus not been able to ascertain who committed this most demonic crime. It is obvious that it was the handiwork of the parents of the girl as Bhopal has seen rising, and grisly, female infanticide recently.
A few weeks before that another newborn girl, all of 31 days, was found inside a water-filled drum. She was drowned in the water and then the mother, who has been arrested, closed the lid and left it there to rot. The mother said that she wanted a boy and when the girl was born, "she didn't like her" and hence killed her.
Killing another human being is not easy for most people, but taking the life of one's own new born child is unimaginable. Only a highly depraved mind can plan and execute such a crime. Imagine the kind of hatred and savagery that went into the act of stabbing a two-year-old more than 100 times with a screwdriver. Can a normal human being, in control of all his or her faculties and sense of proportion, commit such an act? Can such a human being live a normal life after committing such a heinous crime? Given the unpredictable nature of the human brain, the answers to these disturbing questions are the subject matter of deep psycho-analysis of the concerned persons, but to a layman, these are signs of a demented mind.
Society must take the entire blame for this. Although things are changing, the patriarchal system still treats girls as liabilities. The desire to have a boy supersedes all other desires in many families in India. This results in untold harassment of women and girls and in some cases, prods parents to commit such savage crimes. If widespread female feticide (despite an official ban on determining the sex of the fetus) was not enough, India now has to live with rising female infanticide and the heartless parents who can kill their own new born girls.
