Indian teenager gang-raped and burned alive: police

[JI7]

Source: jacaranda

The 16-year-old was assaulted first on October 26 and then again the day after by a group of more than six men near her family's home in Madhyagram town, about 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of Kolkata.

The second rape occurred as she was returning home after reporting the first attack at a police station.

She was then set on fire on December 23 and died in a state-run hospital late on New Year's Eve, police said.

"She gave us a dying declaration in front of the health officials that she was set on fire by two persons close to the accused when she was alone at home on December 23," local policeman Nimbala Santosh Uttamrao told AFP.

Police made their first arrests on Wednesday, two months after the initial crime, local police chief Rajiv Kumar told AFP.

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no response from those who are outraged over US not allowing human trafficking by their "diplomat".

[polly7]

1. Just horrible.

That poor, poor girl.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. N/T

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

3. Message sent: "No Snitching"

There are more discrete ways of silencing one victim/witness.

A fire sends a message to future victims: don't report rape.

[The Stranger]

15. The fire was also intended to destroy evidence.

A U.S. soldier was convicted of raping an Iraqi girl, and he burned her body afterwards to destroy the evidence of his raping her.

[JI7]

16. next they will start targeting family of rape victims

and threaten to kill their parents, siblings , kids etc if they report the rape.

[Sherman A1]

4. Just Sad

simply Sad.

[cinnabonbon]

5. I don't want to live in this world anymore.

That is just so tragic. Goddamn.

[get the red out]

8. Me neither

I'm starting to see humanity as the Earth's lowest form of life.

[davidthegnome]

14. We are the world's greatest monsters.

Some times, I wish that there were predators, monsters of a sort, that were worse than us. Goblins. Dragons. Ogres. Demons. Something worse than us. There is nothing though.

For all of that, our capacity to love, our capacity for empathy, for compassion, makes it entirely possible that we could also be the world's greatest angels. It is sad that, with all of our potential, with everything we as human beings have to offer, to give and to share... so often there are acts of horror such as this one.

What keeps me sane is the knowledge that there are still beautiful people in the world - with big hearts and kind souls. Remember that in the times of the greatest cruelty, there is a kindness within some rare human beings, that redeems us, just a little bit.

We are, in many ways, the earth's lowest form of life. There are those among us, though, who demonstrate our potential to be something different. This is one of those times that shows the whole damn world, anyone paying attention, that the greatest monsters to be feared and hated are cruel, violent men.

It breaks my heart, too. There are definitely days when.... to borrow a favorite line from another DUer "It's not worth chewing through the restraints."

[mdbl]

6. I hope the punishment is as severe

It's the only way to combat total evil.

[cosmicone]

7. Hang all the culprits! n/t

[myrna minx]

9. .

[fasttense]

10. It seems that aside from the crushing poverty in India, cruel lawlessness makes it

a very poor choice for vacationing.

Especially for women.

[penultimate]

13. At a previous job of mine, I worked with a lot people born in India

and we had a lot of down time in which we'd talk about stuff. Most of them had the expected 'love' for their home country, but they all said it's not a nice place to live in terms of order and cleanliness. Many of them said they would find it hard to go back there to live after being in countries like the US and Western Europe. They also had plenty to say about the positive aspects too, but they were all very aware of the negatives that make it a fairly undesirable place to live for themselves.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

11. .

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[marble falls]

12. And what is the Indian government angry about? The arrest of a diplomat who cheated....

an employee.