INDIA
Hindustan Times
Bengaluru, July 30, 2014
An 11-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a temple priest in Bangalore on Tuesday, less than a month after a seven-year-old was raped in a city school, sparking widespread protests in the southern city.
Police say the 53-year-old priest, a friend of the victim’s family, has been arrested. On Tuesday night, he forced himself upon the girl at her home when her parents were away. Hearing the victim’s screams, her two sisters – also minors – ran in from another room, forcing the priest to flee. Later, the parents filed a case with the local police.
In another incident that came to light on Wednesday, a 26-year-old carpenter has reportedly confessed to police that he raped a seven-year-old girl. Results of the victim’s medical tests will reveal when the incident took place, police officials said. The carpenter’s mother worked as a domestic help at the girl’s residence. His family, however, says police tortured him to get the confession.
Anger against sexual violence has been rising in the country since December 16, 2012, when a 23-year-old medical student was brutally gang-raped, and killed, by six men inside a private bus in south Delhi.
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