Just 3 months after the news about the woman being fatally gang- raped, and the current push for stricter punishments for rapists in India, the country is once again in the news for rape again. In the article
Indian police: Three Young Sisters Raped and Killed we learn that just last week, there was another tragic incident, this time with three young girls. On February 14, three bodies were found in a village well. Three little girls between the ages of 5 and 11 had been raped and murdered. This article informs the reader of not only the background, but also that the mother of the three girls is very unhappy with the "shoddy investigation," stating "the police did not take the case seriously and did nothing for two days." With rape, and the defense of rape victims at the forefront of policy in India, this incident enraged many people who are determined to get answers and improve conditions for rape victims and women. It also caught the attention of "Indian Heavy Industries Minister Praful Patel, who represents Bhandara district in Parliament has made sure that the people he represents know that "it is unacceptable" for the situation to have played out the way that it did. At the end of the article the new law that has been enacted recently that now places a stricter punishment on rapist in the country, as if to justify the reader that things are changing.
As most people who have been keeping up with the series of new laws surround rape and women's rights in India have seen, it has taken many difficult and saddening situations to make any changes. And, from a sociological standpoint the progress that the Indian Parliament has made to benefit these women is an amazing thing. But the social disconnect comes, not at a national level, but at a local level. If the local law enforcement and political leaders do not take this change of policy seriously, there will continue to be cases like this one, where police action was too little, too late.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/02/21/india-rape-killed-young-sisters/1937695/
Caroline Dawkins
2/22/2013
12:30pm
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IT STILL STINKS IN INDIA (1): 3-year old child was brutally raped in Kotu Kata area in Bhilwara, Jaipur on February 12. 20-year old Asharam Kumar, a resident of the area, kidnapped the sleeping girl from her Nomadic family, took her to a nearby forest, raped her, beat her up, and savagely chewed her lips and other parts of her face. She was found, crying, in a pool of blood. 14 year-old girl brutally gang-raped in Haridwar district, by Ankit Deshraj, Deepak and Ankit Naresh. 12-year old boy raped a 6-year old girl in Kiran Nagar, Bhopal. The victim's mother found her daughter at a construction site with the boy. In Bihar, a 45-year old woman and mother of 4 was found gang-raped and hanging from a tree in Bhagalpur. In Punjab, on January 11, a 29-year old woman was travelling home on a bus. She was the last passenger on the bus along with the bus conductor and bus driver. They drove past her stop to a remote spot and, along with 5 friends, gang-raped her all night. 11-year old girl, still in hospital, was gang-raped by Suresh Jat, Ramesh Sharma and 4 others on August 20, 2012 in Sikar, Rajasthan. She was pulled off the street into a vehicle while walking with her older sister. She required 14 reconstructive surgeries to repair her vagina, rectum, and internal organs. She lays in hospital all day, crying inconsolably. Four little girls, one as young as 5, were brutally raped by a sadistic 40-year old grocery store owner, Rabi Lochan Dey, in West Bengal's Bankura district on January 3. The little ones had gone to his grocery store to buy a cake. On the pretense of getting them cake, he lured them to a side room and savagely raped them. The incident only came to light when one of the little girls passed blood in her urine. 2-year old toddler monstrously raped by 32 year old Keshav Joshi in Halol town, near Vadodara. After barbarically raping her, he threw her away into the bushes. The toddler passed away 3 days later on December 25, 2012. In January, a 7-year old little girl was raped in the school toilet at Deepvihar High School in the city of Vasco da Gama in Goa state. The 20+-year old male dragged the child into the toilet during recess where he raped her. School management tried to cover up the rape by washing the girl and the toilet where the heinous sexual crime was committed. 3 young girls, aged 6, 8 and 11, went missing February 14 in Lakhani village, Bhandara district in Maharashtra state. Police failed to take action and shamefully ruled the deaths 'accidental' or 'suicide'. Two days later, a villager found them dead at the bottom of a well. Villagers had to demand action, by blocking the roads and burning tires, before a medical examination revealed the girls had been brutally raped, sodomized, and murdered. (cont’d
IT STILL STINKS IN INDIA (2): 18-year old girl was gang-raped in Punjab state November 13. Police harassed the girl, refused to take action, and, shockingly, pressured the girl to marry one of her attackers. She swallowed poison and died. In December, 2012, a playschool was sealed in Paathshala, at Sagarpur in West Delhi after a 3-year old girl was allegedly sedated and raped by the owner’s husband. On February 11, in Rotary Nagar in Kodichikkanahalli, Madiwalli, near Bangalore, 5-year old little Mamatha was lured away from her home with a promise of chocolates by 19-year old Mahesh Nanjundaiah, a neighbour. In attempting to rape her, she screamed and he strangled her to death. That evening, he threw little Mamatha’s body into a bush near a construction site. She was found the next morning in a mud heap covered in bruises, severe external injuries and bite marks. One eyeball had popped out. On February 9, a 50-year old man was attempting to rape a 2-year old toddler in the courtyard of his house in Pratap Nagar Sector 9, Jaipur. Chhotu Harijan, the accused, is the girl’s grandfather. Neighbours came to the toddler’s aid. The body of a 22-year old mentally challenged girl was found with her head smashed by a stone in Karauli’s Hindaun town on February 9. Her body was found, naked, the next morning in a mustard farm. 7-year old girl was repeatedly raped by 32-year old Shashikant Ojha in Sahar’s Sai Nagar in Mumbai. For over two months, he raped her several times and threatened to slit her throat if she told anyone. After the child began feverishly screaming in her sleep, her parents coaxed the story out of her. Ojha had the sick audacity to not only admit to having ‘intercourse’ with the little girl, but also shamefully said: “There’s nothing wrong with it.” 2-year old infant was allegedly raped by an 18-year old male in Minapara village near the city of Raigani, West Bengal on January 5. The sleeping infant was left unattended when the mother went to wash clothes in a nearby pond. 6-year old girl found at Gurgaon-Delhi border, howling, in a pool of blood. She had been kidnapped, brutally raped, sodomized and dumped by the side of the road on February 10. She suffered extensive internal and external injuries and is currently undergoing major reconstructive surgeries. 1-year old infant raped by 15-year old neighbour who barged into the home on February 13 in Nuttam Nagar, West Delhi. The mother was in the next room and, upon hearing her infant’s cries, was alerted. By that time, the infant had been raped and the teenaged had fled.
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