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A girl who had been repeatedly #raped by the male supervisor of a women& #39;s shelter in #Assam, with the connivance of other employees, has attempted suicide. She was sent to the shelter because her step father had been raping her at home. #Shelters in India are hubs for trafficking
2/ We are doing a THREAD here on news reports on how #Shelters for girls & women in India have become hubs for sex trafficking & systemic #rape & sexual violence.
3/ Aug 2018, in a Bihar #shelter for girls, 34 minor girls, mostly speech impaired, were sexually abused & #raped for months. They were also forced to have abortions. In another shelter by the same owner, 11 women missing could have been sex trafficked. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatoday.in/amp/mail-today/story/bihar-muzaffarpur-shelter-rape-case-how-brajesh-thakur-built-evil-empire-1302233-2018-08-01">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www...
4/ Children in this shelter in Maharashtra were being raped & used in the production of porn films. https://twitter.com/50millionmissin/status/1023867187038248961?s=19">https://twitter.com/50million...
5/ In 2012, there were 94 minor, handicapped girls rescued from an award winning NGO home in Rohtak. It was the police that had been routinely sexually torturing & #raping these girls. They were put through excruciating abortions. No news on the police! http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/haryana-cops-raped-us-childrens-home-inmates/958499">https://archive.indianexpress.com/news/hary...
6/ Delhi Commission for Women said 8 women & a minor girl missing from a govt shelter in Delhi
are victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation by brothel owners who may have kidnapped them in "connivance with the Home authorities” https://www.thequint.com/news/india/women-child-missing-from-sanskar-ashram-in-delhi">https://www.thequint.com/news/indi...
are victims of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation by brothel owners who may have kidnapped them in "connivance with the Home authorities” https://www.thequint.com/news/india/women-child-missing-from-sanskar-ashram-in-delhi">https://www.thequint.com/news/indi...
7/ A 12-yr-old girl escaped from a shelter in UP this year and told the police how she and other girls at the shelter would be drugged, sold to & sexually abused by socially prominent & powerful men who paid the shelter for these "services." https://m.timesofindia.com/india/girls-in-shelter-home-were-drugged-then-sent-to-guests/articleshow/66686252.cms">https://m.timesofindia.com/india/gir...
8/ In a shelter home in Delhi, girls have told govt representatives who went to inspect the home, that caretakers subject them to sexually sadistic punishments like pushing red chilli powder into their private parts. https://www.thequint.com/news/india/delhi-shelter-home-abuse-dcw?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=whatsapp_feed">https://www.thequint.com/news/indi...
