[SERIOUS] Victim of child molestation wants to know where does he stand legally.
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24/M,
A little back story on the incident. I had no recollection of the incident that happened 12-14 years prior today. I guess my conscious had buried it deep in the subconscious. During dashain i had a drink for the first time of my life and i guess due to the intoxication and blackout(i cant remember a thing that happened that night) i might have hinted about the past. My close friend confronted me the day after that i had told him that i was a victim and cried the whole night. After that the memories came rushing and left me quiet depressed(i dont know what the exact feeling was) for about a week but now that i have decided to forget it and move on with life but the problem is that i was not the only victim of that dai.
This happened about 12-13 years ago when i was 11-13 years of age. The dai who we used to play with who was around 18-20 at the time. He was a bastard child of the joint family and his father was not in contact with anyone and was a runaway with some debts to pay. I was loved by the family and used to spend my time with a cousin brother of dai who was about 2-3 years younger than me, whom i wll call bhai. We both were molested by him, the actions included oral(he used to do it on us too), sodomy on us and him, and many other illicit things, we didnt know anything better and thought that was normal for us to play like that. But there was more to the incident.
We had a girl friend(another neighbor) of the same age as bhai, i remember her first name and a faint memory of her face and i dont know where she is or anything about her now, but i remember specific incidents that happened. I wont go into intricate details but Me and bhai were time to time forced to have sex with her, i didnt know any better and thought thats how a girl and a boy played. And as far as i remember, in our presence, dai never did the 'ultimate part' except oral with her.
Currently I am thinking of leaving the past behind and move on with my life and have no intention of involving any family on this forgotten incident that happened 10-14 years ago without any memory on it for this long. The bhai and girl might not even remember anything as they were much younger at that time.
Now my main concern is, the dai is now in South Korea and married to a korean girl with a baby, if in the future if by any means, bhai or the girl remembered those incidents decide to come forward with the incident on legal terms, where do the nepali jurisdiction stand on charging him with a case of child molestation or statutory rape. Where do our legal footing stand on when the only proof we got are memories(if it counts) form 12 years ago(as of now).
Will me and bhai also be charged with statutory rape on the girl?
We dont get to hear anything about child molestation and rape cases from the past, surfacing only now and running a trial at the present. We only get to hear some rape cases including minor time to time which is charged immediately and ruled out on court.
tl:dr remembered(a forgotten memory) a child molestation incident from past and want to know the where do i stand legally if the case comes forward.
P.S. My sincere apologies for bad writing or formatting, as this the first time ever i have written anything like this.
Posted Oct 28, 2017, 8:07 AM UTC