Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Curious cases.
So, Monday and Tuesday I had some very curious cases that I would like to share with you. 2 sad and 2 odd.
2 sad cases: a women comes to the Maternity Department with 2 pieces of paper for the Doctor (me). She is accompanied by 2 girls. One 9 years old and one 11 years old.
They are the daughters of her brother that were sent to her to care for.
The story is the 11 year old states while she was sleeping in her hut (no doors, no floors open in the bottom) a drunk man came in and fell on her body and grabbed her and raped her. The paper is from the police department and it is requesting an exam to see if the child has been raped. This happened at the end of March.
The sister is 9 years old, she states that while she went to carry water to her home a man that she knows called her into the woods and she states she thought he had something to give her so she went and he grabbed her and raped her. The paper from the police also requests an exam to verify and this happened at Easter.
So the 11 year old did indeed appear to have been sexually assaulted per anal route and the 9 year old did appear to have been assaulted vaginally. Per the exam, the foul odor.
So I did write the report for both of them.
Very sad.
Then a 14 year old came with a paper from the police to verify if she had been raped but this patient told us that she was not raped, she loves this boy who is like 15 and had sex with him for the first time. She states that he was arrested and she "made an arrangement" to "play sex" with him. This is through the interpreter.
Then Tuesday, yesterday, a girl come with a note from the principal of the school and accompanied by her father that she is disrespectful to her father, she is rebellious at school and this for them is an indication that she MUST have had sex with a boy causing this behavior and to perform and vaginal exam to verify if she was "successful" being a virgin or she was "spoiled". To let them know either way. So at first I said bad behavior is not an indication for a vaginal exam. But the local nurse who trained in Italy with the Comboni nuns stated that we have to perform this exam or they will not let her back in school and her father may throw her out of the house.
So I did a very quick external exam and wrote a note verifying her virginity.
OMG!!!!!
Can you imagine if we examined vaginally every rebellious teenager?!
Obviously no photos........
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That's sad about the first two.
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting that rebellious or bad behavior is linked to having sex; when I was in Afghanistan, a young with whom I worked told me that his father made him get married at 18 because he was becoming rebellious. Presumably the exact opposite perspective.
That's sad about the first two.
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting that rebellious or bad behavior is linked to having sex; when I was in Afghanistan, a young with whom I worked told me that his father made him get married at 18 because he was becoming rebellious. Presumably the exact opposite perspective.