{"id":317,"date":"2013-10-10T16:07:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T16:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2013-10-07T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T16:09:21","slug":"six-year-old-rape-victim-forced-to-marry-her-attackers-eight-year-old-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/six-year-old-rape-victim-forced-to-marry-her-attackers-eight-year-old-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Six-year-old rape victim forced to marry her attacker&#8217;s eight-year-old son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A six-year-old rape victim is being forced to marry the eight-year-old son of the man who attacked her, it is being\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/jaipur\/Six-year-old-rape-victim-ordered-to-wed-rapists-8-year-old-son\/articleshow\/22330723.cms\" target=\"_blank\">reported in India<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s claimed the victim, who lives in the village of Keshavpura, in Rajasthan, was attacked by the 40-year-old around two weeks ago.<br \/>\nInstead of going to police, her family complained to council elders who held a meeting to decide what should happen to the alleged rapist. \u00a0They then told the girl&#8217;s parents that their daughter must marry her attacker&#8217;s eight-year-old son \u2013 but the victim&#8217;s family has refused to accept the elders&#8217; decision.\u00a0Now police have became involved after social activists took the victim and her parents to a police station in Kota to file a complaint. The man was arrested and an investigation has been launched into the allegations against the council elder.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesman said: &#8220;He locked her in a room and raped her. Instead of registering a police complaint, elders belonging to the girl&#8217;s caste called a panchayat (village council) meeting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.parentdish.co.uk\/2013\/09\/06\/six-year-old-rape-victim-forced-to-marry-her-attackers-eight-year-old-son\/\">http:\/\/www.parentdish.co.uk\/2013\/09\/06\/six-year-old-rape-victim-forced-to-marry-her-attackers-eight-year-old-son\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A six-year-old rape victim is being forced to marry the eight-year-old son of the man who attacked her, it is being\u00a0reported in India. It&#8217;s claimed the victim, who lives in the village of Keshavpura, in Rajasthan, was attacked by the 40-year-old around two weeks ago. Instead of going to police, her family complained to council [&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":[19,7,4,3,8,10],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-forced","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-haloproject","tag-honour","tag-honour-based-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","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=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}