Thousands protest 6-year-old's rape in Bangalore school, want suspects arrested

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Source: THE TIMES OF INDIA

NEW DELHI: Thousands of people angry over alleged police inaction after a 6-year-old girl was raped at her school in Bangalore rallied Saturday to demand that authorities arrest those responsible for the attack.

More than 4,000 parents and relatives of children who attend the school in Bangalore, India's technology hub, shouted slogans against the school's administration and demanded that police arrest those involved in the July 2 incident, which was reported only this past week.

They carried placards that read "Enough is enough" and "We want justice," and walked more than 4 kilometers (2 miles) to one of the Bangalore's main police stations.

Police said the girl was assaulted when she left her classroom to go to the restroom. They said she was recovering from the incident, but did not give further details.

The rape has raised questions about the safety of India's schoolchildren and sparked nationwide outrage over rampant sexual violence against girls and women. The school has refused to take responsibility for the crime.


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[840high]

1. When will India change it's attitude?

[Hekate]

6. When they stop aborting female fetuses and correct the gender imbalance

Part of the reasons for this go back several of decades to the easy access of pregnancy ultrasounds that then got used for sex selection. Boys are valued; girls are not. Men receive dowries; fathers have to give them for their daughters.

Don't talk to me about what is and is not legal or right -- it is what it is. The gender imbalance now extends to the millions.

So girls and women, instead of becoming precious for their relative rarity, become the objects of enraged frustration over men's deprivation of their due, which is to have a wife.

See this article, and many others:
http://thediplomat.com/2013/08/india-where-are-all-the-girls/

[840high]

7. Thank you.

[Brigid]

2. Do not go to India if you have a vagina.

A six-year-year-old?!

[CTyankee]

3. I will never travel to India.

I love to travel and to savor the culture of other countries in the world. But India will not get a nickel of my travel $$.

[KinMd]

4. Seriously, especially for a female, she'd be better off visiting North Korea

[CTyankee]

5. My travel dollars go to europe anyway. I just want to look at the art...