There’s No Evidence That Two Indian Sisters Will Be Raped as Punishment for Their Brother’s Affair

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Source: Patheos

September 7, 2015 by Hemant Mehta 23 Comments

Last week, using information from the Huffington Post, Amnesty International (UK), and the Times of India, I posted a story about how two Indian women were sentenced to be raped as punishment for their brother’s adultery.

Reporters for Reuters have been looking for confirmation of this story, conducting interviews with locals and even talking with the family members themselves. As far as they can tell, there’s no evidence of this punishment being handed down. The family asked for protection, yes, but there’s no evidence the council actually issued the grotesque punishment in the first place.


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Can we trust the "news" media at all, anymore?

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1. WTF? Do they have official government rapists? (a clinical procedure - albeit with a fleshy probe).

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2. no, but sometimes the village council of idiots calls down this sort of thing so no one was

surprised to hear about it. I am praying it wasn't true as well. This time.

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3. Talk about a non sequitur!

A man cheats on his wife. Well, we'd better go rape his sisters immediately, damn them! We need to teach them a lesson!




This is a criminal male mentality. I bet if they could, they'd raise the punishment for stealing a candy bar to rape.

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4. These are backwater villages, where the old caste system is still in effect.

"They are born into an inferior family, so they are sub-human."

While it's fortunate that the rape story is false, actions approaching that level of barbarism are still done.