Why Child Rape is More Common Among Rich People
- Madhukar Dama
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Prologue: Wealth Creates the Perfect Storm
Child sexual abuse is one of the darkest realities of our world:
Globally, 1 in 8 girls and 1 in 11 boys are abused before age 18.
About 5% of adult men have pedophilic tendencies, meaning millions of potential offenders.
But here is where wealth makes a difference:
In child sex tourism, a large share of offenders come from affluent nations—Europe, North America, Japan, Australia. They travel to poorer countries to exploit vulnerable children.
In Costa Rica, up to 10% of tourists are linked to sex tourism—most from wealthier backgrounds.
Research shows 42% of offenders in global child sex tourism cases are white-collar professionals—the educated and the wealthy.
Wealth buys mobility (flights, hotels, safe hideouts) and access to networks that make such crimes easier to commit and harder to trace.
This is why pedophilia appears especially common among the rich: not because they are biologically different, but because their wealth removes barriers, creates opportunities, and shields them from exposure.
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1. Power erases moral limits
Poor men face fear, shame, and law.
Rich men face none.
When every adult is available, the forbidden child becomes the last symbol of power.
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2. Money buys silence
Rich predators smother the truth. Police are paid, cases are delayed, families are threatened or bought off. The child’s scream vanishes under the weight of money.
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3. Wealth hides behind worship
A hospital, a temple, a foundation—society bows. The rich are celebrated as philanthropists even as they destroy lives in secret. Reverence becomes their mask.
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4. Networks protect each other
One rich predator shields another. Their circles are bound by shared guilt. To expose one is to expose all, so silence becomes survival.
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5. Poverty provides the victims
Rich children are guarded. Poor children are abandoned. Orphans, laborers, trafficked minors—these become the prey. Without poverty, rich pedophilia would wither.
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6. Morality is for the powerless
The poor are chained by honor and tradition. The rich buy priests, bribe gods, and wash their sins in charity. Morality cages the powerless; for the powerful, it is costume.
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Epilogue: How the Rich Get Away with It
The crime is global, but punishment is rare—and wealth makes it rarer.
In New South Wales, Australia, fewer than 10% of sexual assault reports end in conviction. Similar patterns exist worldwide—most cases collapse or disappear.
Globally, around 90% of child sexual abuse cases are never reported at all, often due to fear, poverty, or pressure.
When wealthy predators are caught, sentences are often light or symbolic. Jeffrey Epstein, despite dozens of victims, initially served just 13 months—with daily release privileges.
By contrast, poorer offenders receive harsher sentences with little chance of escape.
The system bends for those with money, status, and connections. That is why pedophilia feels more common in their world: because they can repeat it, protect it, and erase it.
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Closing Truth
Pedophilia is everywhere.
But among the rich, it becomes frequent, protected, and networked.
The poor predator is exposed, condemned, and punished.
The rich predator builds temples, funds schools, travels abroad—
and still sleeps soundly.
That is why pedophilia seems common among the rich:
not because they are different humans,
but because their wealth makes their crimes invisible.
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Dialogue: Why Pedophilia Is Common Among Rich People
The setting:
Madhukar sits outside his mud hut at dusk. A lamp glows. Villagers and outsiders gather, each carrying their own truth and shadow. The topic has been whispered, avoided, but today it will not escape.
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Act I – The Gathering
Priest (Panditji):
Madhukar, this subject you raise is unholy. Such things should not be spoken.
Why stain the village with dirty words?
Madhukar:
Silence is the dirtiest word.
Children are raped not because mouths are open, but because mouths stay shut.
Politician (MLA):
Arrey, come on, Madhukar. Don’t exaggerate. These are isolated incidents.
Rich people do charity, they build schools, they run the system. Why insult them all?
Social Worker (NGO woman):
Isolated? Every week I meet children broken by powerful men.
Landlords, temple trustees, school principals, film producers.
Your “isolated incidents” are graves without names.
Industrialist (Landlord):
Ha! Always blaming the rich. Poor people also commit such crimes.
Why point only at us?
Madhukar:
The poor may commit, but they are caught.
The rich commit, and they sit here drinking tea as if nothing happened.
The circle grows quiet. A poor woman enters, veil over her head.
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Act II – The Mother Speaks
Victim’s Mother:
I had a daughter. Twelve years old.
She went to clean the landlord’s house. She came back bleeding.
We went to the police. They told us, “Don’t fight. You’ll lose.”
We went to the panchayat. They told us, “Take money and forget.”
We stayed silent. My child does not speak anymore.
Priest:
Sister, such things are shameful. Why speak in public? It will dishonor the family.
Mother (sharply):
What honor do I have left?
The man who destroyed my daughter still walks to temple with garlands.
He gives donation, the bell rings, and the gods keep quiet.
The priest lowers his eyes.
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Act III – The Masks Crack
Madhukar:
Panditji, you wash sins with mantras.
MLA, you wash sins with votes.
Landlord, you wash sins with money.
But who washes the wounds of the child?
Politician:
Madhukar, you don’t understand politics. Power needs compromise.
If I expose a rich man, tomorrow my career is over.
Better to stay silent and do small good than to die fighting a big evil.
Social Worker:
And that silence is the chain.
That’s why these crimes keep happening.
Not because pedophilia is rare, but because the rich repeat it—again and again—protected by your silence.
Landlord (laughing coldly):
Children are cheap, madam. Poor parents send them to work.
They want money more than morals. Who will protect them?
Mother (weeping):
We are poor, yes. But we did not sell our children.
You stole them. You killed their childhood.
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Act IV – The Lawyer Arrives
A lawyer from the nearby town joins, dusty files under his arm.
Lawyer:
I have fought such cases. Do you know the truth?
In ten cases of child rape, maybe one gets conviction.
The rich delay, buy witnesses, bribe police.
Sometimes the case drags for ten years—by then the child is grown, the memory is doubted.
And the predator is free, smiling at ribbon-cuttings.
Madhukar:
So the law is a shop, and the rich are its only customers.
Lawyer (sighing):
Yes. Justice is luxury. The poor cannot afford it.
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Act V – The Student Cuts Through
A young student, thin and restless, steps forward.
Student:
Why are you all dancing around the truth?
The rich rape children because they can.
Because power makes them fearless.
Because money buys silence.
Because society bows before wealth.
Madhukar (nodding):
Simple words. The truth is always simple.
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Act VI – The Naked Truth
Social Worker:
Global studies show rich men are behind most child sex tourism.
They fly to poor countries to buy children like fruits in a market.
This is not fantasy. It is fact.
Lawyer:
And conviction? In some places less than 10%.
The poor predator rots in jail.
The rich predator buys bail, buys priests, buys respectability.
Priest (broken):
Perhaps I too stayed silent too long.
I blessed their donations, while children were bleeding.
Maybe my gods are also deaf.
Politician (quiet now):
I defended them to save my seat.
But maybe there is no seat worth sitting on if children are broken beneath it.
Landlord (angry, cornered):
You all enjoy my money, my sponsorships, my donations.
Now you turn on me? Hypocrites!
Madhukar (calmly):
No, landlord.
The hypocrites are those who accept your coins.
You are not hypocrite—you are criminal.
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Act VII – The Fire Settles
Silence thickens. The mother’s sobs are the only sound.
Madhukar:
Listen to her. That is the sound of truth.
Not statistics. Not speeches. Not charity.
Just one cry.
The rich rape children not because they are born different—
but because the world gives them permission.
As long as poverty supplies the prey,
as long as power protects the predator,
as long as society bows before money,
this crime will live in the shadows.
But the shadows end when the cry is heard.
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The lamp flickers. The group sits wordless.
The dialogue is over, but its weight is not.
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Monster
the monster is not in the jungle
it is in the bungalow
behind the tinted glass
with security guards at the gate
and a god’s photo in the hall.
the monster wears silk
gives donations in temples
cuts ribbons with scissors
smiles on newspaper front pages.
his name is whispered
his crimes are never written.
the monster feeds on hunger.
a twelve year old girl goes to sweep his floor
a ten year old boy serves tea at his factory
a child abandoned at the bus stand is lifted in his car.
poverty delivers the bodies
power swallows them whole.
the monster is not mad.
he is logical.
he knows the police will not touch him.
he knows the priest will bless him.
he knows the MLA will defend him.
he knows the mother will be silenced.
he knows the law is slower than death.
the monster is not alone.
he sits in circles.
they drink together, laugh together,
swap secrets like currency.
one man’s silence buys another man’s freedom.
it is not a man.
it is a network of shadows.
in villages, the landlord is the monster.
in cities, the producer, the politician, the godman.
different clothes, same hunger.
different accents, same laugh.
same monster.
the poor predator is caught,
paraded, beaten, jailed.
the rich predator is worshipped,
called benefactor, called leader,
called sahukar, called babu.
children bleed,
but his hands stay clean in the eyes of society.
the monster is not one man.
it is the worship of money.
it is the bowing of heads before power.
it is the silence of the crowd
when a poor mother screams.
the real monster is us.
our silence.
our respect for wealth.
our fear of speaking.
our habit of looking away.
the child is broken.
the monster sleeps well.
the village goes on.
the temple bell rings.
the newspaper prints festivals, not screams.
the monster walks free.
and the truth sits outside the hut,
smoking beedi,
waiting for someone to finally listen.
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