dr beller requested an interview with a government representative but received no answer under pressure from the public the government announced tougher sentences for pedophiles and rapists. on television deputy prime minister richard actor even proposed castrating the perpetrators. but in practice this woman maintains the authorities often look the other way her own daughter was secretly abused by a relative from a very young age. david. we got no help of any kind from the authorities not the legal advice nor psychological counseling for our traumatised daughter. we were left completely on our own and now i asked the politicians why does someone who's raped a child under twelve years of age get up to forty years in prison but someone who's raped a thirteen year old gets at most five years. many turks doubt their government is serious about combat in child abuse. when the state religious authority wrote that