Worst then atrocious....
"India protests rape of girl, 5; Garment worker charged in attack after kidnapping" by Gardiner Harris | New York Times, April 21, 2013
NEW DELHI — Hundreds of demonstrators besieged New Delhi’s police headquarters on Saturday to protest the kidnapping, rape, and torture of a 5-year-old girl last week.
The injured girl was moved Friday evening to New Delhi’s finest public hospital on a gurney covered with stuffed toys, and by Saturday she was alert and in stable condition, according to doctors there.
She was being given fluids and intravenous antibiotics to fight a blood infection, the doctors said, and further operations will have to wait until the infection has abated.
Meanwhile, police arrested a 22-year-old garment worker early Saturday morning in Bihar, said Rajan Bhagat, a Delhi police spokesman.
The police identified the suspect as Manoj, who, like many Indians, uses only one name. He had recently married and was tracked down with the help of cellphone records in the town where his in-laws live, according to Indian news reports.
The suspect had an apartment in New Delhi in the same building as the girl, whom he is accused of abducting, raping, and torturing last Sunday night.
The Times of India reported that he told police he fled his apartment shortly thereafter because he believed that the girl had died. The girl’s parents found her on Wednesday in the man’s apartment.
‘‘This is the first time I have seen such barbarism,’’ R.K. Bansal, medical superintendent of Swami Dayanand Hospital, said Friday in a televised interview. ‘‘There were injuries on her lips, cheeks, arms, and anus area. Her neck had bruise marks suggesting that attempts were made to strangle her.’’ She also suffered severe internal injuries.
In December, a woman was gang-raped and tortured and her companion beaten in a case that shocked the nation and led to weeks of spontaneous protests by Indians demanding better security for women.
Related: Indian Gang Bang
That case led to changes in the country’s rape laws, but horrific sexual assaults continue to be reported around India with regularity.
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Also see: Impotent Indians
What's with the hush up of the Swiss tourist rape?
"Rape victim, 5, improves in India" by Nirmala George | Associated Press, April 22, 2013
NEW DELHI — The condition of a 5-year-old girl who was kidnapped, raped, and tortured by a man and then left alone in a locked room in India’s capital for two days has improved, a doctor said Sunday, as protests continued over the authorities’ handling of the case.
The girl was in critical condition when she was transferred Thursday from a local hospital to the largest government-run hospital in the country.
D.K. Sharma, medical superintendent of the state-run hospital in New Delhi where the girl was being treated, said Sunday that she was responding well to treatment and that her condition had stabilized.
Police say the girl disappeared April 15 and was found two days later by neighbors who heard her crying in a locked room in the same New Delhi building where she lives with her family. The girl was alone when she was found, having been left for dead by the man following the brutal attack, police say.
A 24-year-old man was arrested Saturday in the eastern state of Bihar, about 600 miles from New Delhi, in connection with the incident. After being flown to New Delhi, he was in custody Sunday and was being questioned, police said.
I will bet he AGED TWO YEARS in a DAY!
The incident occurred four months after the fatal gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus sparked outrage across India about the treatment of women in the country.
For the second consecutive day, hundreds of people protested Sunday outside police headquarters in the capital, angry over allegations that police had ignored complaints by the girl’s parents that she was missing.
About 100 supporters of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party protested outside the home of the chief of the ruling Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi, demanding that the government ensure the safety and security of women and girls in the city.
Not related.
The protesters also demanded that the Delhi police chief be removed from office and that police officials accused of failing to act on the parents’ complaint be dismissed.
‘‘Police and other officials that fail to do their jobs and instead engage in abusive behavior should know that they will be punished,’’ Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director of New York-based Human Rights Watch, said Sunday.
Police said they detained more than 50 protesters when they tried to break down barricades on the road leading to Gandhi’s house.
The protesters were released after a few hours.
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"Second suspect arrested in India child rape case; Allegedly tried to murder girl; protests flare" by Nirmala George | Associated Press, April 23, 2013
NEW DELHI — A second suspect was arrested Monday in the rape of a 5-year-old girl who New Delhi police say was left for dead in a locked room, a case that has brought another wave of protests against how Indian authorities handle sex crimes.
Pradeep Kumar, a 19-year-old garment factory worker, was arrested Monday in the eastern state of Bihar, about 620 miles from New Delhi, and was being brought to the capital, police said.
Police said questioning of the first man arrested in the case, Manoj Kumar, led them to the second suspect. Manoj Kumar, 24, was arrested Saturday in Bihar and flown back to New Delhi. Kumar is a common last name in India and the two men are not related.
We were told he only had one name, but whatever.
The men are accused of abducting, raping, and attempting to murder the 5-year-old, who went missing April 15 and was found two days later by neighbors who heard her crying in a locked room in the same New Delhi building where she lives with her family. The girl was alone when she was found, having been left for dead by her attackers, police say.
The girl was in critical condition when she was transferred Thursday to the largest government-run hospital in the country.
D.K. Sharma, medical superintendent of the hospital in New Delhi where the girl was being treated, said Monday she was responding well and her condition had stabilized.
‘‘She is much better today and her wounds are healing well,’’ Sharma told reporters.
The attack came four months after the fatal gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus sparked outrage across India about the treatment of women in the country.
For the third consecutive day, sporadic protests erupted in at least three places in New Delhi.
Scores of supporters of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party dodged a huge police cordon and managed to reach the gates of Parliament, where they shouted slogans against the Delhi police’s tardy handling of the case.
About 100 of the party’s supporters were detained. Police said they would be held at a nearby police station and released in a few hours.
Separately, about 100 women protested at another area near the Parliament building. Most of the protests were directed against the Delhi police officers who failed to act after the girl’s parents told them she was missing.
The protesters have demanded that the Delhi police chief be removed from office and that police accused of failing to act on the parents’ complaint be dismissed.
‘‘The police must be held accountable for their shocking levels of apathy. They urgently need to review police processes to ensure that all cases of rape and sexual violence — not just those highlighted by the media — are fully and promptly investigated,’’ said G. Ananthapadmanabhan, who heads the India chapter of the human rights group Amnesty International.
‘‘Those who fail to do their job must be held accountable,’’ he said.
Delhi police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar admitted Monday that police had erred in handling the case.
‘‘There have been shortfalls, so the station house officer and his deputy have been suspended,’’ Kumar told reporters.
However, he said that instructions given to police officers since the December gang rape case to report all complaints of rape and molestation had led to a ‘‘phenomenal rise’’ in the number of such cases registered in the city.
‘‘This shows that the tendency earlier to dissuade women from getting their complaints registered has changed dramatically,’’ he said.
He said the number of rape and molestation cases that police were able to solve had also gone up drastically.
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When I look at modern India I can only think Gandhi would have been appalled.
UPDATE:
"India’s lawmakers pass bill to deter attacks on women" by Heather Timmons | New York Times, March 22, 2013
NEW DELHI — India’s Parliament passed a comprehensive bill Thursday to impose stronger penalties on men who attack women and to criminalize offenses such as stalking and voyeurism.
The bill passed quickly in the upper house of Parliament on Thursday; the debate in the lower house Tuesday was longer, lasting seven hours. President Pranab Mukherjee is expected to sign it into law shortly....
The passage of the bill comes less than three months after a New Delhi physiotherapy student was gang-raped on a moving bus and later died from her injuries. The assault drew widespread outrage and prompted protests across India over the issue of women’s safety.
Many Indians have demanded that the government do more to protect women and impose harsher sentences on men who molest them. Reported rapes in India have risen in recent years, and northern India has witnessed a series of highly publicized gang rapes....
India’s democracy has often been faulted for being so unruly and its Parliament so dysfunctional that fundamental development issues like education and malnutrition are never adequately addressed.
Sound familiar, American?
The fact that the rape bill passed both houses of Parliament speedily this week is a sign that the voices of thousands of protesters had been heard, activists said.
‘‘It is good that India still responds as a democracy when there is pressure from citizens,’’ said Meenakshi Ganguly, the director of Human Rights Watch in South Asia.
Then you are no longer a democracy, America.
Cabinet ministers were quick to praise the bill’s passage....
A photo-op, plus they look butch.
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