Derek O’Brien shared a deeply disturbing story from his childhood during a Rajya Sabha debate.
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00:00I got on to a crowded bus and I don't know who it was but with my short pants and t-shirt
00:09I was sexually molested.
00:37How can we prevent this from happening and where does it all start?
00:45Someone mentioned it starts on television channels, on Facebook, on newspapers.
00:50It's very clear where it starts.
00:52Sir, it starts in your home, in my home and in everybody else's homes.
00:56It starts in our home because all the cases today which come to light, you say some mama
01:03touch kiya, ya kaka touch kiya, that is how it happens and this is what is availability
01:07and then what do we do and it's for boys and girls and what do we do?
01:11We are told aisi baat mat karo and the child actually doesn't express herself.
01:17If you have been sexually abused or harassed as a child, please come up and speak about
01:24it and the more MPs who come and speak, the more actors, the more actresses, the cricketers
01:29and the more common people.
01:30That's how more families will get encouraged to speak about this and that's what I want
01:36to speak about today, sir, with a lot of pride and sadness and hurt but I think India
01:44needs to know because my family knows that on a bus in Kolkata as a 13-year-old after
01:54doing tennis practice wearing short pants and T-shirt, I got onto a crowded bus and
02:00I don't know who it was but with my short pants and T-shirt, I was sexually molested
02:08in the sense, someone pressed and I'm giving you the explicit details, sir, not to but
02:14reason enough for someone, some unknown man to come and ejaculate at the shorts of this
02:21boy.
02:22Sir, I didn't speak about it, 6 years, 7 years, 8 years till I brought it up once much later
02:29in my life with my parents and that is the kind of way I urge all of us here across political
02:35parties, the information broadcasting minister is here, the minister who is bringing this
02:41bill herself has a great track record on television to reach out to people.
02:46We need to use this forum to reach out to people.
02:50The more people will talk about it, the more we start talking about it, the more children
02:55will be saved.
02:56Punishment, very good, let the courts do, let's work towards prevention of this heinous
03:02crime.