Indian schoolgirls beaten with sticks after protesting sexual harassment

[Raja Sab]

The assault happened on Saturday outside a government-run boarding school in the eastern state of Bihar
India is the world’s most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence

NEW DELHI: Thirty-four Indian schoolgirls aged between 12 and 16 were taken to hospital after being beaten with sticks by a group of boys, along with the boys’ mothers and neighbors, who had harassed them earlier in the day, authorities said.
The assault happened on Saturday outside a government-run boarding school in the eastern state of Bihar, police told Reuters, following a series of sexual assaults across the country that has sparked outrage.
India is the world’s most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labor, according to a Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of about 550 experts on women’s issues released in June.
Earlier this year in Bihar, more than 30 girls were sexually assaulted and tortured at a shelter in Bihar.
Saturday’s attack only came to light on Monday because of the delay in filing the case. Ten people, including four women, were arrested, Mrityunjay Kumar Choudhary, Supaul’s police chief, told Reuters.
The girls suffered minor injuries and were released from hospital over the weekend.
The boys, aged between 12 and 16, entered a field near the school in the village of Darpakha, about 300 km (180 miles) from the state capital, Patna, where the girls were playing on Saturday and shouted obscene comments, Choudhary said.
The boys left after the girls protested, only to return later with a group of around 20 people armed with sticks.
“The boys brought their mothers and others from the neighborhood,” Baidyanath Yadav, Supaul’s district chief, told Reuters. The older women also attacked the girls, he said.
The girls returned to school, where authorities have beefed up security, on Monday, Yadav said.
Opposition leader and former Bihar deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav took to Twitter to target Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, accusing him of maintaining a “cunning silence” on the violence.

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[LongHorn]

“The boys brought their mothers and others from the neighborhood,” Baidyanath Yadav, Supaul’s district chief, told Reuters. The older women also attacked the girls, he said.]

Women are women's worst enemies ….

 

[troodon]

Just a normal day there.

 

[Sachin136]

Of course it's in Bihar...

 

[Chokli]

beyond disgusting. Mothers encouraging their sons to beat the girls.

I've witnessed such incident live. Was at a gathering and this indian aunty little boy tried to fight with a little girl who pushed him. He came back to his mom crying and this is what shocked the f out of me. She literally told him "How can you get beat by a girl. You're a boy. Go and beat her up and I will give you 2 riyals". He then went to the girl again and pushed her blind-sighted. This is the state of parents these days.

They encourage cruelty, they can't monitor what their child is doing on the internet. They can't follow up with their children's life. They can't do anything. All they know now is whine about how terrible it is for them to wake up in the middle of the night to take care of their children.

Sickening.

 

[PakLFC]

Just shiny India at it's best.

 

[Suleiman]

Women are women's worst enemies ….

They don't want to face reality. The biggest cause for civil issues in South Asia come from inner problems in people, things like ego, shame, pride, not wanting to face the truth, all these things when compromised cause riot and outrage over there. People are willing to put the aforementioned above humanity and mercy.

Girls are raped, but afraid to tell their parents because their parents suffer from one of the above.

"log kiya sochenge"