THE RIPPLE EFFECTS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: BATTERY, SEXUAL ASSAULT AND RAPE.
Women are delicate, precious, wonderful creatures, emotional being, and beautiful works of art. Every girl-child, lady and woman around us are to be celebrated. Women simply add colour to our world! God never created women to be inferior being or slaves in the society but to be helpers, lifters, burden bearers, vision builders, messengers of hope, supporters, and of cause partners in building the society. But the society has relegated these hitherto qualities in women to be inferior being, object of rape, sexual assault, punching bags etal. It’s been said that “Beside every successful man is a woman”. Indeed, justifiably so. However, this concise piece seeks to consider the ripple effect of why women are so deprived in the society such that the economic evil of battery, domestic violence, sexual assault, and even rape are critical cases that characterizes most women folks in the society. It is no doubt today that the traumatic effects of sexual assault and most domestic violen...