Rape Victim Forgotten As She Faces 20th Surgery Since Gang Rape
On December - 27 - 2013
The rape victim that India forgot
Not far away from where hundreds marched and held candle-lit vigils in memory of a medical student who died after a brutal gang-rape in the capital New Delhi exactly a year ago, the 12-year-old lay in a room, forced to come to terms with her wounds and plight virtually alone. Gang-raped some sixteen months ago and having undergone 19 reconstructive surgeries, there has been little or no outpouring of sympathy and public support for her. “These sixteen months have been the worst in in life. I am dying every single day. My life has been ruined, body violated. The pain is unbearable, but I am yet to get justice,” she says. READ MORE HERE
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