India Convicts 2 Men of Raping Their 10-Year-Old Niece
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India Convicts 2 Men of Raping Their 10-Year-Old Niece
31, 2017
MUMBAI, India — Two Indian men were convicted on Tuesday of raping their 10-year-old niece in a case
that hit global headlines when the girl was denied an abortion by India’s top court and had to give birth, the local news media reported.
An increasing number of such cases have come to the courts in recent years, with as many as 10,854
cases of child rape reported in India in 2015, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
A court in India on Tuesday found two of the girl’s uncles, both brothers, guilty of
rape with sentencing set for later this week, according to the Hindustan Times.
The girl, whose identity has been kept secret, initially told the police and child welfare activists
that she had been raped several times in recent months by the first uncle, who is in his 40s.
Activists say that awareness of and reporting of sexual violence against women has risen since a fatal gang-rape
of a student on a bus in New Delhi in 2012, which prompted nationwide protests and a tightening of the law.
The girl was 30 weeks pregnant in July when a court in the northwestern city of Chandigarh
turned down her abortion plea because her pregnancy was too far advanced.
In May, a court allowed another 10-year-old girl, who was said to have been raped by her stepfather, to undergo an abortion.
31, 2017
MUMBAI, India — Two Indian men were convicted on Tuesday of raping their 10-year-old niece in a case
that hit global headlines when the girl was denied an abortion by India’s top court and had to give birth, the local news media reported.
An increasing number of such cases have come to the courts in recent years, with as many as 10,854
cases of child rape reported in India in 2015, according to the National Crime Records Bureau.
A court in India on Tuesday found two of the girl’s uncles, both brothers, guilty of
rape with sentencing set for later this week, according to the Hindustan Times.
The girl, whose identity has been kept secret, initially told the police and child welfare activists
that she had been raped several times in recent months by the first uncle, who is in his 40s.
Activists say that awareness of and reporting of sexual violence against women has risen since a fatal gang-rape
of a student on a bus in New Delhi in 2012, which prompted nationwide protests and a tightening of the law.
The girl was 30 weeks pregnant in July when a court in the northwestern city of Chandigarh
turned down her abortion plea because her pregnancy was too far advanced.
In May, a court allowed another 10-year-old girl, who was said to have been raped by her stepfather, to undergo an abortion.