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| Teen gets three years in gang rape, murder of Indian woman: a protester in India chants slogans as she braces herself against the spray fired from police water canons during a protest sparked by the gang rape of student. This is the first verdict in a case that has sparked international outrage over the brutal crime (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images/NPR). |
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| Young girls hold banners during a demonstration Thursday in Lucknow, India, after police arrested several men for allegedly gang raping and murdering two teenage children, sisters, then hanging their bodies from a tree. At least one of the perpetrators was a policeman (Azam Husain/Barcroft Media/Landov). |
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McCarthy says the two girls, ages 14 and 15, were killed in a village about 140 miles east of India's capital New Delhi.
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reportedly had gone to a field to relieve themselves but never
returned," McCarthy says. "Like hundreds of millions of Indians, they
lacked a bathroom at home."
The girls' family belong to the
Dalit caste, formerly known as "untouchables," the lowest rung of
India's ancient [social stratification-by-birth] system of societal hierarchy.
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The
Associated Press says: "Hundreds of angry villagers stayed next to the
tree throughout Wednesday, silently protesting the police response.
Indian TV footage showed the villagers sitting under the girls' bodies
as they swung in the wind, and preventing authorities from taking them
down until the suspects were arrested."
Human Rights
campaigners say Dalit women are frequently the target of attacks, and
this incident is yet another in a series of violent rapes against Indian
women in recent years that have united India in anger.
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Last year, four men were sentenced in
the highest-profile of the cases -- one involving a young woman on a bus
who was gang raped [in front of her boyfriend who was beaten unconscious] and later died from injuries she sustained in the
[violent sexual] assault. More (MORE)
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