01. The facts of the case
Ding Hongling, a 66-year-old man from rural Hunan, works as a security guard in a community in Changsha to make ends meet. She is not very literate, her language is limited to her hometown dialect, and she does not speak Mandarin very well. At work, she encountered something more painful than poverty - she was sexually assaulted three times by her colleague Yu Mouyan, who was also a security guard.
For the first time, Ding Hongling was tricked by Yu Mouyan into going to a dark pump room underground in the community on the grounds of work, where she was raped. Although she desperately called for help, the sound insulation was too good for anyone to know. For the second and third time, Yu Mouyan used the key to break into Ding Hongling's dormitory directly in the early hours of the morning and violated her. Every time there was an atrocity, he threatened Ding Hongling not to speak out, otherwise he would kill her. The poor old man, in great terror, suffered both physical and mental trauma.
In the face of such a terrible encounter, Ding Hongling could not make a clear statement when she first reported the case, and the police only gave a simple mediation treatment, and the perpetrator Yu Mouyan was not punished as he should be. Seeing that justice was difficult, the old man's daughter Li Rong stepped forward and once again fully assisted her mother in revealing all the details of the facts to the police and starting a new round of rights protection. However, the road ahead will be extremely difficult...
02. The difficulty of reporting and protecting rights
For Ding Hongling, reporting the case to the police is not an easy task. As a rural elderly person with a limited level of education, she is illiterate and can only speak in the vernacular of her hometown, which is a great obstacle to communicating with outsiders. When the police asked about the incident, she could only use stiff dialects to tell intermittently, and she couldn't say many technical words, so she could only use body language and metaphors instead.
What's even worse is that Ding Hongling was tormented by social prejudice and shame, and she felt embarrassed that an old lady of her age was insulted by this. In the countryside, where she had lived for a long time, it was a tradition not to mention sex, and she had never been educated in this area since she was a child. When it came time to give the police a clear account of the details of the sexual assault she had suffered, she struggled to speak and stopped.
Fortunately, her daughter Li Rong stepped forward, and she carefully guided her mother to face the trauma again. In the most understandable language, she untied the knot in her mother's heart little by little, so that she had the courage to tell it herself. Li Rong also repeatedly explained that sexual assault is never the victim's fault, and the mother should seek justice. Only in this way can the demands of the mother and daughter be taken seriously by the police, and the investigation of the case can continue to be deepened...
However, what is in front of us will be a long and arduous road to defend rights. In addition to the language barrier, age and cultural differences will also cause many obstacles for the two. Can justice finally be reclaimed? Let's move on!
03. The employer company ignores it
Yutian, the property company where Ms. Ding worked as a security guard, had a disappointing performance after she was sexually assaulted. As an employer, it should take the initiative to pay attention to this matter and protect the legitimate rights and interests of the injured employees. However, Yutian turned a blind eye to Ding Hongling's plight and did not give her any assistance or support.
What's even more fashionable is that the company quickly moved on to other crooked ideas. Ding Hongling's daughter Li Rong also works in Yutian, and when she actively defended her mother's rights, the company took the opportunity to retaliate against the mother and daughter. First of all, the company dismissed Ding Hongling's husband Li Jianguo without notice on the grounds of "optimizing personnel". Then, although she promised to let Li Rong take a vacation to appease her mother, just half a month later, Li Rong was also expelled.
Not only that, Yutian Company also reversed black and white, falsely accused Li Rong of the crime of embezzlement, and threatened and intimidated her. It can be seen that this company completely puts the protection of its own interests above morality and law, and is indifferent to the suffering of its victims. Ding Hongling's family originally thought that sexual assault was the biggest misfortune, but they didn't expect to fall into a new round of disputes with the company...
04. Ding Hongling is deeply troubled by shame
The trauma caused by sexual assault to Ding Hongling is not only reflected in the physiological level, but also deeply hurts her soul. As a rural old man who is over the age of six, Ding Hongling has only lived in a small hometown and village all her life, and her ideological concepts are very conservative. In her mind, sex is a taboo subject, let alone being sexually assaulted.
When the truth was exposed, the sense of shame was like an invisible wall, completely enveloping Ding Hongling. She can't look into other people's eyes and often laughs at herself as "ugly and humiliating". Even when discussing rights protection with her daughter, she often choked up and shed tears, and her words did not reach her meaning. The haze of trauma grew deeper and deeper, and she was mentally devastated.
And Ding Hongling is not fighting alone, and this incident has also brought a heavy mental blow to her family. The children felt guilty for ignoring their mother's weak pleas for help, and now they felt guilty for seeing her suffer. The husband, Li Jianguo, hated his wife for this insult, and his children had to isolate him to prevent him from retaliating.
The most distressing thing is that the husband and wife relationship between Ding Hongling and Li Jianguo for decades has also cracked after this trauma. Once trusted, there were no regrets, but now the eyes are full of rustiness and guilt. The wife began to be submissive to her husband, waiting for him as if she were atoning for her sins, much to the ridicule of her family.
In addition to the family, Ding Hongling's family will also be under public opinion pressure from the society of acquaintances in the village. Everyone in rural society is a familiar face, and if Ding Hongling's experience is made public, it will inevitably become the object of conversation and ridicule among the villagers after dinner. Such trauma will undoubtedly continue to haunt them...
The society is undoubtedly seriously ignoring the sexual assault case of elderly women, Ding Hongling's road to defending her rights is destined to be difficult and dangerous, where this case will go, perhaps only time can give the best answer!