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Dubai, January 19: My child has already gone through hell. We are trying to help her forget it. She is a kid. We are avoiding talking things in front of her. Whatever time we spend with her, we try to put her back to the same old state she was.

She has briefed the police, identified the people and given her statement. I don’t see any reason for her to go to court again. I can’t hear my daughter saying everything again.

This crime is much more heinous than a murder. No punishment will be sufficient for such sick minds. Raping an adult and raping a child are entirely different things. Even molestation is equally monstrous.

I request the judiciary here to set an example so that nobody in the world, not just in Dubai, will ever dare to do this.

The media should not let it die down. It should pursue the case, push for the maximum punishment and publish the sentence in the same manner as they have highlighted the incident.

I request the court to assure that they be given the maximum punishment so that perpetrators of such crimes will fear even thinking about doing something like this.

If they are set free or given a limited sentence, I am sure others of this nature will repeat these things.

The fear factor is very important. We have to set an example in that because I believe that holding a child or even looking at a child in an improper way is a sin. It is still painful. People should be afraid of doing even that because it leaves an insecure feeling in the child.

These are sick minds and we can’t read those minds. We don’t know how many lives they would have spoiled already. They might have thought no parent would report it.

We know we were late. But the fact is fact. It took us one week to connect things and come to know that something which we never imagined in our wildest thoughts has happened to us, our child.

She was in pain and she was so scared. As parents, we were just holding her close to us.

We wanted to report it not at the expense of our child’s security and state of mind. Our first priority was to bring her out of the trauma. That is why we took her to Mumbai. But the doctor there confirmed what my wife saw in my child’s dress were bloodstains and semen and sex had taken place.

We spent sleepless nights thinking about our child and other kids still travelling with them.

I felt I was not doing justice to my child and other children and their parents, doing nothing about it.

We decided to report it only when we felt that she is a little stable and we can go to people. We have no relatives here and we had to take her with us everywhere we go.

For days, my child was not able to speak properly. She is scared of strangers. She is scared at night and while sleeping, she startles.

I don’t know how long my daughter will take to overcome this trauma. Perhaps, it may take her entire life.

I have cried enough. My tears have finished now. I am sharing everything because I think children who are still naïve can be saved if this incident can set an example in punishing the criminals.

I am thankful to all the parents of the school. Millions of mails have been exchanged among them and I am seeing them without them knowing that because I am also in the mailing list. All of us have to fight together for the safety of our children.

We always take things for granted and think that this will not happen to us. This can happen to any of us. We have to watch our kids’ acts and talk.

Whatever they talk weird, we have to make sense out of it and see if everything is alright.

Forget about our hands, we have never raised our voice on our child. My wife became suspicious when we saw her unusually scared. We know she needs help to get over with all these.

We are planning go to a psychologist and seek help for our child.

Mother of the victim thanks police, media and other parents

We are thankful to everyone — the police, the parents, the consulate and the media who all have been supporting us. We have to fight together for our children’s safety.

Our main concern is every child’s protection. I am not only fighting for my child; I am fighting for all parents and for the society.

GEMS appointing female attendants on buses is a great step. Whether it is GEMS or any school, we should feel happy about it. I think if they had taken this step much before, what has happened to my child would not have happened