A ten-year-old girl has been raped at the orders of a
village chief in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, after her husband beat
up a man who tried to molest the child’s mother, it has been reported.
It
is the latest shocking sex crime to hit India and further highlights the
country’s severe problem of violence against women, says The Times of India.
Police
have said that the rape followed a confrontation where an intoxicated
25-year-old man entered the victim’s house and tried to molest the child’s
mother before her husband apprehended the attacker and threw him out of the
house.
The following morning, the attacker complained of
being assaulted to the chief of the Bokaro district village, police say. An
assembly of elders was then convene to determine the husband’s punishment for
his violence. The families of the victims and attackers alike were then
summoned to a meeting where the village chief allegedly ruled that the attacker
rape the ten-year-old girl to avenge his beating.
The man is then alleged to have dragged the girl
into bushes and raped the girl to the chorus of her mother’s cries. An hour
later the mother retrieved her daughter from the bushes where she lay
blood-soaked.
Despite the horrific nature of this incident it
is merely one in an estimated 25,000 yearly rape cases which are reported in
India.
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