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Outrage in India after an 86-year-old woman was brutally raped and beaten by a 33-year-old attacker when she begged him to stop and said she was ‘like her grandmother’
- The woman was waiting outside her home in Delhi for the milkman on Monday.
- A 33-year-old man approached her and said he would take her to the store for milk
- But instead he took her to a nearby farm and brutally raped her in the field.
- He has been arrested and activists are demanding the death penalty.
An 86-year-old grandmother has been brutally raped and assaulted by a 33-year-old man in India.
The man, who has been detained, told the woman he was “like her grandmother” while carrying out the alleged attack Monday night.
He approached the woman as she waited outside her home in Delhi for the afternoon milkman.
An 86-year-old grandmother has been brutally raped and assaulted by a 33-year-old man in India
Swati Maliwal, director of the Delhi Women’s Commission, told the BBC: “He told her that her regular milk delivery man would not come and offered to take her to the place where she could get milk.”
She trusted him willingly and accompanied him to fetch milk, but he took her to a nearby farm and raped her.
Ms Maliwal said: ‘She kept crying and begging him to leave her. She told him she was like her grandmother.
But he ignored her pleas and ruthlessly assaulted her when she tried to resist and protect herself.
Indians protest rape and sexual violence in December following the case of a 27-year-old veterinarian who was gang-raped and killed in Hyderabad.
Local villagers heard her screams and rushed to her rescue, handing the rapist over to the police.
Maliwal visited the woman at her home on Tuesday and described her as ‘heartbreaking’.
She said she has bruises all over her face and body and suffered from vaginal bleeding and extreme trauma.
The activist has demanded the death penalty for the attacker and is writing to the Chief Justice of the Delhi Court to expedite the case.
India was ranked as the most dangerous place for women in 2018 due to its high levels of domestic and sexual violence.
India was ranked as the most dangerous place for women in 2018 due to its high levels of domestic and sexual violence.
The Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of 550 world experts made the ranking based on 33,356 rapes and 89,097 assaults that year.
In 2017, up to 90 rapes were reported to the police every day, according to government data.
Rape is one of the fastest growing crimes in India and the National Bureau of Criminal Records reported in 2019 that the number of attacks doubled in the 17 years between 2001 and 2017.
The same data showed that one in four rape victims in India in 2018 was a minor, and more than 50 percent of them were between the ages of 18 and 30.
In just under 94 percent of rape cases, the victims knew their rapists, who were often family members, friends, associates or employers.
And yet the National Family Health Survey of India said that 80 percent of women who experience sexual violence do not report it.
In December 2019, the American media organization National Public Radio interviewed activists and experts on why rape is such a serious problem in India.
Altamash Khan is an instructor who works with universities on how to prevent sexual violence and works with the non-profit organization Men Against Violence and Abuse in Mumbai.
He told NPR that he believes sexual violence would be reduced if “we can undermine ancestral patriarchal values” and look at “the specter of violence,” including things like boos.
