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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Tett",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Housing",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, those are the ones who suffer silently. There are many like those victims in our midst. The other day, we saw on TV, a child who had suffered in a home. She had been raped for 822 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES May 2, 2006 three years by her own father. It is only when the mother noticed that she could not walk properly that she questioned her. The child confessed that it is her father who has been raping her. Surely, we cannot let this kind of beastly behaviour to go on. What about the boy who was sodomised by his uncle? These are the true stories that we hear about every day on TV and radio. It touches some of us. This brutality will haunt those children for the rest of their lives. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know how I would feel if it was my own child being subjected to rape. There can never be any form of punishment or otherwise that can equal the mental and emotional distress and social stigma that a defiled or sexually-abused victim has to live with for the rest of his or her life. Let me also touch on the police stations. In most cases, when the victims go to the police stations to report the crime, they are mocked and asked a lot of questions. The policeman will start laughing and asking what happened. It is so embarrassing that the victim has no option, but to forget about it and go back home. This Bill covers all this. The process of obtaining a P3 Form is also another nightmare. Sometimes the P3 Forms are not there. If they are available, a victim has to pay some money to get them."
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