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Bandits Gang Rape A Nun In Her 70s In India
KOLKATA, India
A nun in her 70s was gang-raped by a group of
bandits Saturday when she tried to prevent them from robbing a Christian
missionary school in eastern India, police said, the latest crime to focus
attention on the scourge of sexual violence in the country.
The
nun was hospitalized in serious condition after being attacked by seven or
eight men at the Convent of Jesus and Mary School in Nadia district, 50 miles
northeast of the West Bengal state capital of Kolkata, a police officer said.
The men escaped and police
are searching for them, said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity
because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
The robbers tied the
school's security guards with ropes early Saturday and entered the nuns' room,
where the women were sleeping. They took one of the nuns to another room when
she tried to block their way and then raped her, the officer said.
The woman who was attacked
is either 71 or 72 and is the oldest nun at the school, he said.
The men escaped with some
cash, a cellphone, a laptop computer and a camera, all belonging to the school,
the officer said. They also ransacked the school's chapel and holy items, the
Press Trust of India news agency cited the archbishop of Kolkata, Thomas
D'Souza, as saying.
Scores of angry students,
their parents and teachers blocked a nearby highway and railroad tracks for
several hours demanding swift police action leading to the arrest of the
culprits.
Mamta Banerjee, the
state's top elected official, strongly condemned the attack and ordered a
high-level police investigation. D'Souza appealed to people to maintain peace
and harmony in the area.
India has a long history
of tolerance for sexual violence, but the December 2012 fatal
gang rape of a 23-year-old woman aboard a
moving bus in New Delhi caused outrage across the nation.
The outcry led the
federal government to rush legislation doubling prison terms for rapists to 20
years and criminalizing voyeurism, stalking and the trafficking of women. The
law also makes it a crime for officers to refuse to open cases when complaints
are made.
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