Preschool Rape Case Belies Justice for India Women Born to Lose
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Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) -- The 3-year-old was limp on thefamily bed in New Delhi, staring at the ceiling. She didn’t wantto eat. She wouldn’t speak. She barely moved. “Lying around,like a dead body,” her father said.
She usually came skittering home from preschool full ofjoy, a whirl of noise and motion, giggles bouncing off theconcrete walls. Her stillness worried her family. Then shevomited. After a doctor prescribed medicine for an upsetstomach, she threw up again. Her mother peeled off her clothesto find splotches of what looked like blood inside herdaughter’s pink and white pants, and her genitals were swollen.