a brief description of India: a thread

1. 16-year-old girl was beheaded and her body parts were cut before they were doused in acid

2. A 30-year-old man from Dhalai district was arrested for sexually assaulting his own daughter

3. A 5-year-old girl was raped after being abducted from Mahim area of Mumbai. Her body was found on the roadside later

4. A man held a 16-year-old at gunpoint when she was out to relieve herself and raped her in Uttar Pradesh

5. A 30-year-old man allegedly raped the girl, broke her bones and later murdered her. She was on her way to the temple

6. A 20-year-old man allegedly raped a 3-year-old kid when she was playing outside her home in Jammu & Kashmir

7. 3 men allegedly raped a 17-year-old deaf and mute girl and also filmed the whole act in UP's Rampur

8. 3 men confined and raped a 16-year-old girl for 51 days in Noida

9. 5 men beat and raped a woman who was out for shopping with her husband. They also videotaped the act

10. A man allegedly killed a 9-month-old baby after raping her during wee hours in Telangana

11. A man lured a 4-year-old girl with a 10-rupee-note and took her to a secluded spot to physically violate her

12. A social worker from Mumbai allegedly took a mentally challenged woman on his bike and raped her

13. A rickshaw puller allegedly raped a 6-year-old girl in Delhi's Janakpuri

14. Two teachers allegedly raped a blind girl in the music room of the school in Gujarat

15. 'Sorry, amma' - that was the note from a 12-year-old girl who was physically violated by over 30 men in 2 years

16. Two teachers, including the vice-principal were accused of raping a class 4 student in Jharkhand

17. A 24-year-old woman wrote names of people who allegedly raped her - and committed suicide by hanging herself

18. 5 men allegedly hit and raped a woman in a park when she had gone to explore a job opportunity. The acquaintance and 4 others who intervened tried to assault her

19. 6 men allegedly raped a minor who had gone to a park in Coimbatore to celebrate her birthday with a friend

20. Father-in-law and his brother raped a woman after she objected to triple talaq her husband gave her

and these are just the cases that have been reported. there are thousands of other women who've not been lucky enough to come out of this alive or are scared of what other will think of her. so many women even live in the same house as their rapist.

teachers, doctors, fathers, relatives, friends, brothers, lovers, u name it. fuck walking alone at night, there is no safety for women even in the broad daylight when going to a doctor, going to a school, visiting a relative. welcome to India.

also, i apologise for not putting a trigger warning on the top i really do.