The family refused, saying: "They destroyed the life of our child, how can we compromise?" They estimate that they and their neighbours had to go to the police station 10 times before the police agreed to register the case.
She told them what happened and they went to the police but the police refused to register a case, advising them to compromise because the doctor was offering them 200,000 rupees (around £2,267) to drop the case. When her family found her she was covered in blood. Afterwards she stumbled out onto the street and fainted. She was walking to the market to buy sweets when the doctor, who her family estimates is around 50 years old, forcefully pulled her inside his clinic and raped her. They have since moved house because the neighbours were gossiping, saying things like: "The girl's life is spoiled, what will you do now?" Five-year-old Nirmala (name changed), who was raped by her mother's boss, poses for a photo in Maharashtra Getty Images Nirmala, aged five, poses for a photo with her mother and father Getty Images The place where Nirmala was raped in Maharashtra Getty ImagesĮight-year-old Sadaf was raped by a doctor in her village in Uttar Pradesh. Nirmala's mother says they won't accept the money offered by the rapist's family, as they want justice instead. The man was caught two weeks later, but his family keeps offering Nirmala's family money to drop the court case. He left her naked and bleeding so heavily she required two operations, staying in the hospital for three months. He took her to a wooded area behind an apartment building complex, where he raped her. While Nirmala was walking the man came up to her and offered to buy her some sweets. Her mother had given her money to go to the corner store to buy food. Their names have been changed and their faces are hidden to protect their identities.įive-year-old Nirmala, from western India's Maharashtra state, was raped by her mother's boss. A report by Human Rights Watch says many rape victims are "mistreated a second time by a criminal justice system that often does not want to hear or believe their accounts, or take serious action against perpetrators."įive young girls have broken the silence. The majority of child rapes are perpetrated by members of the family, but children are also sexually abused by neighbours and figures of authority. Studies suggest that more than 7,200 children – including infants – are raped every year, and experts believe many more cases go unreported. According to Louis-Georges Arsenault, Unicef Representative to India, one in three Indian rape victims is a child.
Someone in the hostel might have seen us stepping out of the bathroom.India is thought to have the largest number of sexually abused children in the world. It was only after a few days that we discovered what was going on-we were being called the lesbian couple. Did people stare at us for a little longer than necessary? Did the girls stopped talking when we reached the stuffy common room? We had no idea. Next day as we reached college, we knew something was different. The thought of touching her never crossed my mind although we stood next to each other for thirty long minutes under a shower.īut we were not prepared for what followed. I wanted to draw her neck that met her shoulder in a delicate curve. The stretch mark on my back only made me look darker. The stretch mark in her thighs glistened like silver when she poured water over her fair legs. We were alike in our imperfections-her left breast was bigger than the right, I had a bigger right breast. The small bathroom was filled with studied silence. I always took a bath before having lunch, and I was preparing to go to the bathroom when she asked me nonchalantly, “Do you still want to draw me?” It was one of those days when you skip classes because it’s so hot that you don’t dare to step outside.
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On a humid July afternoon, months after that conversation, we were watching a movie together.