Grief and pain best define the feeling one goes through each time stories on rape of minors by men old enough to be their grandfathers are reported. Worst still is that such stories are not in short supply these days. Indeed, cases of rape and child defilement have been gaining frightening dimensions of recent that one may not be wrong in describing the Nigerian child as endangered specie. Juxtapose this with the fact that most rape cases are hardly reported for fear of stigma and denial of justice, and the enormity of the problem in the society we live in will be staring you right on the face. Morals have gone so low that oftentimes, the ungodly act is even perpetrated by blood relations. Victim’s fathers, stepfathers, brothers, cousins, and neighbours are often identified as culprits in the heinous act to the chagrin of any sane mind. Research actually shows that more than 90 per cent of rape cases are committed by people well known to the victims. And while the stigma is enormous, the trauma cannot be restituted. Recent abduction, rape and subsequent killing of an eight year old girl, named Chikamso Victory, by one Ifeanyi Dike, 23, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, brings to the front burner the need for all to insist on justice for victims. Continue reading via link below www.naijagossip.com.ng/2017/09/02/shouldnt-rapists-castrated/