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niyad

(112,435 posts)
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 12:44 PM Jul 2016

Indian girl, 14, died in agony two months after being 'tortured, raped and force-fed acid which des

Indian girl, 14, died in agony two months after being 'tortured, raped and force-fed acid which destroyed her organs'


The 14-year-old - a member of the lowest caste in India's social system - is said to have been drugged and raped by her family's neighbour last year



Getty Activists from The All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA) and Indian Students Union shout slogans in front of Uttar Pradesh Bhawan
Activists from The All India Democratic Women's Association protest against child sex crimes

A teenager from Delhi who was allegedly tortured, repeatedly raped and force-fed acid has died a sickening painful death after her 'internal organs were destroyed.' The 14-year-old 'Dalit' - a member of the lowest caste in India's social system, also known as an ' untouchable ' - is said to have been drugged and raped by her family's neighbour last year. He allegedly kidnapped the teenager again ahead of a court hearing in May before torturing and raping her.

Her parents are reportedly street cleaners and currently at the hospital where she was treated, Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh, north west Delhi.
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Getty Images Dalits women and people from different organisations shouting slogan during a protest against the rise of rape cases of Dalit women in Haryana

She was forced to swallow a corrosive liquid, possibly an acid, by the man and 'died a very painful death', according to the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chairperson Swati Maliwal
She said the neighbour, named only as Shivshankar, was arrested only after the DCW became involved.

Ms Maliwal tweeted: "The girl was fed a corrosive substance which completely destroyed her internal organs and she died a very painful death. There are so many questions we can raise over the police action in this case? Why was the accused not arrested? Why was the Prevention of Atrocities Act not applied in this case?
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Getty Images Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) women wing took out a protest against the recent gang rape and murder of two Dalit sisters in Badaun in Uttar Pradesh



Getty Images Indian activists shout slogans as they are confronted by police officials during a protest outside Kerala House in New Delhi
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The girl's family claim four other people are responsible for the torture and rape of the teen.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/teenage-girl-tortured-repeatedly-raped-8488664


14-year-old girl dies in second shocking double rape case in India



Shocking details emerge of three more alleged rapes in India
Activists say high-visibility cases put spotlight on India's ongoing problem

(CNN)A 14-year-old girl has died in another case of a lower-caste woman allegedly being raped by the same man twice in India. The girl was kidnapped in May by the same suspect who allegedly attacked her in December, according to a police report filed by her parents, a senior Delhi police official told CNN. The suspect was reportedly out on bail while he awaited trial in the first rape case involving the girl.

The girl belonged to the Dalit caste, Swati Maliwal, chairwoman of the Delhi Commission for Women, told CNN. Dalit is the lowest caste in Indian society. Her parents told police the alleged attacker forced the girl to drink chemicals. She died Sunday after being admitted to the hospital in June when she fell ill. The suspect was arrested again following her death, police said.

The girl's death comes after brutal details emerged last week of another case of a Dalit student allegedly raped by the same group of men for a second time. The allegations of the double gang-rape caused an international outcry, raised questions around why the accused were granted bail and highlighted the vulnerability of Dalit women in India. According to India's National Crime Records Bureau, more than four Dalit women are raped every day, with 2014 statistics saying crime against Dalits rose 19%. In many of the cases, these crimes are committed by perpetrators from an upper caste.

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/26/asia/india-rape-cases/

Teen girl dies in India after second rape by same attacker, police say


Police in Delhi, India, said a 14-year-old girl was raped and killed by a man who had previously sexually assaulted her. File Photo by singh_lens/Shutterstock

DELHI, India, July 26 (UPI) -- A 14-year-old girl died in India after being kidnapped and raped by the same man who was awaiting trial for raping her last year, local authorities said. The victim, a Dalit, a member of the lowest caste in India, was kidnapped by the man in May, and her parents told police she was tortured and forced to drink chemicals, police told CNN. She later died in a hospital.

Her death follows a similar attack on another Dalit girl allegedly gang raped a second time by the same group, spurring international outrage and scrutiny of how the men were allowed to make bail.

"How long will Delhi's girls be thrown to the wolves. This Nirbhaya was also raped by the system. Can anybody hear her scream?" said Swati Maliwal, chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women in a series of tweets. "There are so many questions we can raise over the police action in this case. Why was the accused not arrested? Why was the Prevention of Atrocities Act not applied in this case?" Maliwal said.

The victim was allegedly kidnapped by the man who is accused of raping her in December, binding her hands and feet, and starving her while she was held.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/07/26/Teen-girl-dies-in-India-after-second-rape-by-same-attacker-police-say/9921469524700/

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Indian girl, 14, died in agony two months after being 'tortured, raped and force-fed acid which des (Original Post) niyad Jul 2016 OP
I have very unfavorable beliefs about this country. GOLGO 13 Jul 2016 #1
tell ,me what you think about this story: niyad Jul 2016 #2
you realize that violence against women happens regardless of country, culture or religion, yes? LanternWaste Jul 2016 #3
Disgusting! He should be in jail for the rest of his life. smirkymonkey Jul 2016 #4

GOLGO 13

(1,681 posts)
1. I have very unfavorable beliefs about this country.
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 01:33 PM
Jul 2016

This is just another example of why I hold these beliefs.

niyad

(112,435 posts)
2. tell ,me what you think about this story:
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 01:37 PM
Jul 2016

(killing your wife is "understandable". does anybody seriously think there is any real difference between that attitude and the attitude that includes "honour killlings" and the terrible rapes in india? reallllly?? all have one thing in common--women are expendable, not worth any kind of respect or acknowledgment as human beings)

A cycle of violence: when a woman’s murder is called ‘understandable’


Lance Hart killed his wife, but reports implied guilt on her part. Couching male violence against women in terms that absolves the perpetrator of responsibility reinforces a culture that doesn’t value female lives



Spalding shooting victims – Charlotte Hart and mother Claire Hart. Photograph: Facebook




I can think of many words to describe the murder of a woman by her own husband. “Understandable” is not one of them. Yet this is the word that Dr Max Pemberton chose to use when he weighed in on Lance Hart’s recent murder of his wife, Claire, and their 19-year old-daughter, Charlotte. Writing in the Daily Mail, and referencing the recent breakdown of the Harts’ marriage, he said:
Of course, such men are often motivated by anger and a desire to punish the spouse.
But while killing their partner as an act of revenge may be understandable, for a man to kill his children (who are innocent bystanders in a marital breakdown) is a very different matter.
I believe it is often a twisted act of love, as the man crassly believes that the crisis in their lives is so great that the children would be better off dead.

In this short extract, Pemberton describes the “understandable” murder by a man of his own wife as a “very different matter” to his killing his child – an “innocent bystander” – implying guilt on the part of the wife. He seems to suggest that, by ending their marriage, Claire had – at least in part – brought her death upon herself. Later referring to men who kill their own children, he goes on to use the phrase “act of love”, implying that perpetrators of such crimes are overtaken by passion – that such men should not necessarily be held fully responsible.



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This is not just a matter of semantics. The way our media reports male violence against women can have a huge impact on societal perceptions of the problem. As Polly Neate, the chief executive of Women’s Aid, says:
The reporting of this case is deeply irresponsible because it minimises the culpability of Lance Hart, portraying him as an equal victim in a tragic case, rather than a man who chose to kill his wife and daughter. The phrase ‘twisted act of love’ is particularly harmful, and shows why journalists need robust training on domestic abuse and homicide. Unless the lives of Claire and Charlotte are considered more important than some of the so-called ‘reasons’ Lance killed them, we will never move to a culture that values women’s lives enough to make them safer.
Perhaps most worryingly of all, media responses such as those described above actively relieve perpetrators of responsibility and, by failing to set such incidents like this within a wider context of male violence, erase the societal problem they represent.
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Having completely divorced an incident from the systemic violence men inflict on women and girls, this is an unsurprising conclusion to reach. Which is why such narratives must be challenged, and why they are so dangerous. We must identify examples of male violence as just that: male violence against women. We must hold perpetrators fully accountable, and we must report responsibly on these cases. Only then will we as a society be able to recognise that, in fact, there is so much more that could be done.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2016/jul/26/womans-murder-called-understandable-lance-hart

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
3. you realize that violence against women happens regardless of country, culture or religion, yes?
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 01:47 PM
Jul 2016

No doubt, you realize that violence against women happens regardless of country, culture or religion, yes? That it is not in fact, isolated to any one region, nor a statistical aberration in regards to place or time, yes? That violence against women is minimized, rationalized and even excused in our own culture in the here and now, yes?

If so, do you consistently apply your premise to all nations and cultures?

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
4. Disgusting! He should be in jail for the rest of his life.
Tue Jul 26, 2016, 01:55 PM
Jul 2016

India is a horrible place for women and girls. I can't imagine how horrible their lives are.

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