Goa, Nov. 12 -- Two shocking sexual assaults on 4-year-old girls in Mapusa and Canacona within a cou ple of days have triggered widespread outrage, but the responses from civil so ciety point to a failure that runs deeper than the crimes themselves - a preventive policing and child-protec tion system that appears to gather urgency only after the damage is done. With a four-year-old raped in Mapusa on No vember 8 and another four-year-old in Canacona on November 10, activists, legal practitioners and women's rights campaign ers have questioned the State's ability to protect children in public spaces and vulnerable households. Their demands go beyond arrests and investigations, calling for sustained police patrolling, functional CCTV networ...