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| Subject: Statist idiots: New Delhi judge tells rape victim to marry her rapist to become 'respectable' Sun Jul 05, 2015 12:23 am | |
| Three words no woman who has been raped ever wants to hear have thrown a young woman in a remote part of India into turmoil ever since the idea was proposed by a high court judge last month.
Having tried to put the rape of 2008 behind her and to get on with raising the little girl born nine months later, 21-year-old Asha* has been troubled by memories and disturbed by the judge's shocking suggestion: marry your rapist.
"When the judge took his pen and wrote this, did he think even once of my plight?", she asked an Indian Express journalist in a video interview in the garden of her one-room home.
The judge in question, Justice P Devadas of the Madras High Court, has been hearing the bail appeal of V Mohan, the man convicted of raping Asha. On June 23 he agreed to the bail request on condition that Mohan try "mediation" with Asha. Mediation in a rape case is aimed at marriage.
http://www.watoday.com.au/world/rape-victim-told-to-marry-to-become-respectable-20150704-gi4xn6 |
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