"5-year-old rape victim dies in India" Associated Press, May 01, 2013
NEW DELHI — A 5-year-old girl has died after being raped in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, an official said Tuesday, in the latest in a series of brutal attacks that have sparked outrage in the country....
Earlier this month, another 5-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped, and tortured by two men who then abandoned her in a locked room in New Delhi. She is still recovering at a hospital in the city.
Related: Another Atrocious Rape in India
The girl who died Monday was lured by one of two men to a farm, where she was raped by the other man, who was a friend of her parents, said Bharat Yadav, collector for Seoni district, where the attack occurred. The parents, poor construction workers, were at work when the attack occurred, he said.
Ravi Manadiar, an administrator at the hospital, said the girl suffered a brain injury when the men tried to smother her cries and was in a coma from April 20 until she died.
In Nagpur, the mother of the girl was inconsolable....
Who can blame her?
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I'm starting to feel the same way about India's treatment of women as I am about the factory conditions in Bangladesh.
