{"id":253,"date":"2013-09-06T12:33:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T12:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:12:25","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:12:25","slug":"indian-rape-victim-six-is-forced-to-marry-eight-year-old-son-of-the-man-who-attacked-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/indian-rape-victim-six-is-forced-to-marry-eight-year-old-son-of-the-man-who-attacked-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian rape victim, six, is forced to marry  eight-year-old son of the &#8216;man who attacked her&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Girl was &#8216;locked in a room and raped&#8217; by a 40-year-old man a fortnight ago<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>She is being forced to marry her attacker&#8217;s son by Indian council elders<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Her parents, who live in Rajasthan, are protesting against the decision<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Victim is believed to have been raped by same man again on Wednesday\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A six-year-old Indian girl who was locked in a room and raped is being forced to marry the eight-year-old son of her alleged attacker.\u00a0The victim, who lives in the village of Keshavpura, in\u00a0Rajasthan, was attacked by the 40-year-old around two weeks ago, it is claimed.\u00a0Instead of going to police, her family complained to council elders who held a meeting to decide what should happen to the alleged rapist.<\/p>\n<p>Astonishingly, they then told the girl&#8217;s parents that their daughter must marry her attacker&#8217;s eight-year-old son. \u00a0Meanwhile, the girl\u00a0is believed to have been raped by the same man again on Wednesday, according to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/article\/cities\/6-year-old-rape-survivor-ordered-to-marry-8-year-old-son-of-alleged-rapist-414686?pfrom=home-otherstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>NDTV<\/b>.<\/a>\u00a0The victim&#8217;s family has refused to accept the elders&#8217; decision.\u00a0The case is the latest in a string of horrific sexual assaults on women and young girls in India, including a fatal attack on a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi late last year and the rape of a photojournalist in Mumbai last month.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2412104\/Indian-rape-victim-forced-marry-year-old-son-man-attacked-her.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2412104\/Indian-rape-victim-forced-marry-year-old-son-man-attacked-her.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girl was &#8216;locked in a room and raped&#8217; by a 40-year-old man a fortnight ago She is being forced to marry her attacker&#8217;s son by Indian council elders Her parents, who live in Rajasthan, are protesting against the decision Victim is believed to have been raped by same man again on Wednesday\u00a0 A six-year-old Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35,4,3,44],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-asian","tag-halo-project","tag-haloproject","tag-rape"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}