Author Topic: India Teen Kills Self After Pressured To Drop Gang Rape Case & Marry Attacker  (Read 1424 times)

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India Teen Commits Suicide After Police Pressure Her To Drop Gang Rape Case, Marry Attacker

A 17-year-old Indian girl who was gang-raped committed suicide after police pressured her to drop the case and marry one of her attackers, police and a relative said on Thursday.

More:  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/27/india-gang-rape-suicide_n_2370859.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

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This follows another high profile case in which a gang rape victim has died in hospital from her injuries. Shocking attitude to rape in the country. :'(
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We might enjoy rape play, I know of more than 1 female that has enjoyed a gangrape in play
That is the difference, we know it's play not real.

The attitude of the cops there to rape really sux
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Once again, it puts the lie to the notion that rape is just a sort of culturally nebulously defined thing and not something horrible for the woman, no matter their culture. It also helps reinforce WHAT a "rape culture" is: A culture that enables rape by having institutional gatekeepers reinforce the norms that would allow rapists to act with impunity.

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Sad story, but raises a few questions:
1. Doesn't everyone know that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem?
2. Why can't people grasp the fact that when they die, they are dead, dead, dead? Religion, with their promise of afterlife, should be on trial for accessory to murder.
3. Wasn't she in the intensive care unit of a hospital?  Presumably under adult supervision? Why wasn't she stopped from committing suicide?
4. Pressure to marry her attacker?  Wasn't it a gang-rape?  Was she to marry all of them? Did she have the option of choosing one? Did the guys draw straws?
5. Who owned/operated the bus? Will they be held accountable? Had this happened in a Wal-Mart bathroom, someone would lose their job, and the company would be sued for a zillion dollars.
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You are confusing two two different gang rapes here. The girl raped on the bus died of her injuries.

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You're right about the 2 rapes

Some of the family of the bus rapists are upset as well

‘Hang my son, he deserves it’

Family members of the accused who gangraped a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus wept and expressed disgust over the involvement of their kin. However, the locals of their residential area are glad they have been arrested as their “children will no more grow up in the company of these men.”
Remorseful mother Champa Devi of Vinay Sharma, an accused, wiped her tears while she said, “Give my son a death penalty!” She further said that in case her son is not hanged, he should be made impotent so that he remember his offence lifetime. Two teenaged sisters and a brother of Sharma refused to see their brother again. Vinay’s shattered sister said in a sinking tone, “I broke all my blood relations with Vinay.”
Vinay worked as an assistant gym trainer in the Siri Fort area and aspired to have a body like Salman Khan.
His mother has refused to cook for the family and intends to punish her and others in the family for being a blood-relative of him.
Ram Singh and Mukesh resided in R.K. Puram’s Sector-3 since the last two decades. Ram Singh’s neighbour Shanti, said that many a times, her young daughter complained to her about the foul language of Ram and Mukesh. Ram was a widower. His wife died four years ago due to health issues.
The mother of fruit seller Pawan Gupta (18) demanded punishment for her guilty son. “It will give a lesson to other rapist as well who take girl’s for granted.”
His aggressive mother claimed to have asked her 9-year-old son to swear by her and promise to respect women, be it his mother, sister, wife or a stranger.


http://www.asianage.com/mumbai/hang-my-son-he-deserves-it-377

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You are confusing two two different gang rapes here.


Ah, sorry for the confusion.
It's not very often I'm wrong about, well, anything.
But clearly I was mistaken about this.


But who'd've thunk there'd be two different rapes in one country during a short period of time?

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