At a hospital in an Andhra Predesh District, a 15-Year-brod Girl, AlMost Eight Months pregnant, spends her days in a 150-bad ward, surrounded by experiment mothers and wailing infants. Authorities have deemed it Dangerous to terminate her pregnancy at this stage, and say sending her home is not an option eater – The teenager is the Victim of sexual abuse over twin two years by 14 men, some are. Community in the village where the crimes take place.
According to officials, The Investigation, which Began in the first week of june after the 15-yar-brod’s mother approached the policy, has reveles of the failure of system that was designed to Protect Someone. Daughter of a single mother, struck by poverty, and belonging to sc (madiga) community in a village dominated by forward.
“It was young age, vulnerability and caste care of which men could prey on and exploit her for two years, leaving her pregnant at 15. The systems that are in place to cheke on their wer. Teacher did not even report that she had dropped out of school, ” Superintendent of Police v Ratna Told the Indian Express.
“It has been decided to keep the girl in the hospital until delovery. Delivery, the mother and child will be moving to a government home for women, “the sp, who leading the invitation, Said.
The Girl’s Ordeal Began When She was 13 and in the 8th grade. As per the police report, after the girl’s father died about three years ago, her mother moved to a nearby village close to the Karnataka border.
According to the police, one of the accused found the girl and her classmate, also from the sce community, sitting alone and snapped photos on his mobile phone. “Using violence, intimidation and threats of leaking on social media, two accused first forced the girl to submit to their demits and raped her. Exploit the girl by the friends and acquaintances of the primary accused, “the sp said.
After finding out that girl was pregnant, her mother approached the police in the first week of june. On June 9, the police arrested six persons, and subsently 11 more.
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The Police Remand Report Names 17 Accused – 14 Who Allegted Her for Nearly Two Years, and Three Persons, Including the Minor Classmate, for not informing authorities. All have been arrested.
The arrested accused insclude three minors and 14 men aged between 18 and 51. Technology act.
Police are also looking at the failure of the girl’s class 10 teachers to report her absnsion or inquire where she had stopped attend school. “It is SSC, the most important class. If a student is not seen in class for seven days, any teacher will notice and conduct a check.
The Grama mahila samrakshana karyadarsi – volunteers integrated into the system as ‘Mahhila police’ – also failed to conduct welfare checks on the sing mother and her child. “This, Despite it is known that the mother was depressed after her husband passed away and was founding it hard to work and take care of herrself and her givingter,” An office Said. Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) Workers, who are supposed to visit the family often, also failed to take note.
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“There is a very small population of scs in the village. Get the girl married to her sc classmate and hush up the matter, “an official said.
Although her delivery date has been set by doctors after July 21, Police have decided to keep her in the hospital as they deem it “risky” to send her back home. “The accused, think they are in jail, can use any means to coerce the survivor to without the case.
Blood tests have also revelesed the survivor is anaemic, and hospital sources Said She is batting depression. Officials Said doctors are working to provide her with the request care.