Eight arrested in India for the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl

by time news

The Indian Police have reported the arrest of eight men for the violation of a 16 year old girl who was held for more than twelve hours in a bungalow in Palghar, in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Apparently one of the men lured the teenager to the house on Friday, located on the coast, where they raped her consecutively until the next morning.

“The complaint filed on Saturday states that the victim declares that the attack began at 8:00 p.m. on December 16 and that it continued until 11:00 a.m. the following day,” a police spokesman was quoted as saying by the Indian network NDTV.

“The defendant took her to an empty bungalow and they raped her in turns. Then they took her to the shore and there they abused her again,” he added.

Impunity in the country

Rape and sexual crimes in India have been going on for years in the focus of public attention, especially since the brutal rape and murder of a young student on a New Delhi bus in December 2012.

According to a report from the National Criminal Records Office in 2019, more than 3 crimes are committed in the country.0,000 violations per year, about 88 a day. The executions of those responsible for the rape of the New Delhi girl, according to the office, “had no effect” on the criminals.

Impunity is notorious: only 30 percent of reported rapes end in conviction, and the sociocultural stigma that weighs on the victims prevents most cases from coming to light.

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