Indian police say a 10-year-old girl has
been raped on the orders of a village
chief 'as punishment' after her father
beat up a neighbour who broke into
house
According to The Times of India, the
girl's father attacked his 25-year-old
neighbour after the man broke into his
house drunk at around midnight and
tried to molest his wife.
The next day, the battered and bruised
neighbour reported the 'assault' to
elders in his village in eastern India's
Bokaro district - and they permitted
him to rape the girl as revenge.
The elders passed the horrifying
sentence after deciding the girl's
'violent' father had to be punished.
The newspaper said the 25-year-old
dragged the girl into bushes a short
distance away and raped her, against
the cries of the child's mother.Police
told the newspaper that an hour later,
the mother retrieved her daughter from
the bushes, where she was found lying
in blood.Other villagers were
reportedly too frightened to intervene
in case they became targets themselves.
However, police have released
conflicting information on the alleged
incident.
According to the Hindustan Times,
officers said the girl was 14 years old,
not 10, and that she was the sister of
the attacker, not his daughter.
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