South Africa outraged at gang rape of teenager

     Citizens of Johannesburg,  Africa are demanding action after a 17 year old girl was gang-raped, sliced open from her stomach to her genitals, and left for dead on a construction site. She was able to live long enough to identify only one of her attackers, others suspected of the crime are promised to be arrested soon.
      From the young age of month-old babies to the much older 94 year old grandmothers, females are sexually assaulted and violated very frequently throughout the year. Even one in four women are raped. Statistics show that 37% of surveyed men in South Africa's most populated province confessed to raping a woman or child. Even their own president was accused of raping the daughter of a friend in 2005. He was later acquitted when he stated that the sex was consensual. In 2009, a study showed 62% of surveyed boys over age 11 believed forcing someone to have sex was not an act of violence and 1/3 of those boys said the girls even enjoyed rape. These startling numbers will only climb if the cycle continues.
     Every few months this African nation with the highest rate of rapes of babies and young girls in the world yells its outrage at a particularly brutal attack. It is often said that past apartheid is to blame as well as pervasive poverty. I don't believe that past segregation or poverty is the reason for these outrageous crimes. Perhaps the abolition of the death penalty allows these men to think that they won't get a fatal punishment as one would in America. Less than 10% of reported sexual crimes results in a successful prosecution, this makes the girls reluctant to even report their rape. These men seem to have no intimidation to deter them from committing these crimes. They know they can most likely get away with it with a less than fair sentence even if they do get convicted. It seems that gender inequality as talked about in class, has made itself evident in news articles that I find. It's not hard to find a subject to write about since something happens everyday relating to international crime, most frequently it is centered around females. In countries such as Africa it makes me concerned of how their future will turn out.