Protests are underway in India
following the death of a pregnant 16-year-old girl who was reportedly burned to
death by friends of the sorry-excuse-for men who raped her
multiple times earlier last year.
via Think Progress
Indian police have filed murder
charges against two individuals who allegedly set a 16-year-old girl on fire on
December 23, after the victim succumbed to her injuries and passed away on New
Years Eve.
The two suspects are closely
connected to the people accused of gang-raping the 16-year-old, who was
pregnant at the time of her death, and may have burned her alive in order to
punish her for going to the police.
Before the teen girl passed away,
she
identified her attackers as close friends of the two people who raped her
this past October, a local policeman confirmed to news outlets. “The accused
tried to kill my daughter by setting her on fire to hush up their crimes,” the
victim’s father told Agence France-Presse.
The murder has sparked protests in
Calcutta, where hundreds of people rallied on Wednesday. The
deceased 16-year-old was allegedly gang raped twice in the fall.
In October, she was assaulted by a
group of more than six men near her family’s home near Calcutta. The next day,
she reported the attack at a local police station, and was raped again on her
way home from the station. Both assaults left her unconscious.
This entire story is beyond
disgusting. These scumbags all deserve the worst punishment possible!
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