60 men turn to have him on Lula Lula with a 13-year-old girl from a poor family

From Kerala, India, a terrible case were arrested for supposed sexual abuse and sexual exploitation, where 58 men and boys were arrested in connection with the rape and band rape of a dalit girl, who would have been abused for five years, starting with the moment when he was only 13 years old.

Two of the 60 men who have sexually violated at that time fled the country to evade arrest. The case lit a debate on the vulnerability of Delit women in India and the systemic problems that contribute to their marginalization.

The statements came to light after the 18-year-old girl confessed to a counselor visiting her college in the state of Kerala, detailed years of horrible abuse. The police say that the alleged abuse began five years ago, when a neighbor sexually abused the girl, who is the daughter of workers with poor salaries from one of the most marginalized communities in India.

It is assumed that the abuser filmed the initial aggression and the police are investigating if he used these images to blackmail and manipulate the girl to be sexually raped and abused by dozens of other men and boys in the next five years.

The Deputy Inspector of the Kerala Police, General Ajeetha Begum, told CNN that two other men wanted to run out of the country.

The accused includes school colleagues, relatives, neighbors from all corners of his life, from minors to men in the 1940s, according to CNN’s case documents and interviews with the Local Police. No accusations have been filed and the 58 men remain in detention. None of the accused has spoken public about the accusations. According to Indian rape laws, the girl was not identified.

The statements sent corrugations through the village of the girl from the green hills in Kerala, where many work as workers in jobs with low salaries, such as construction and agriculture. The police say the girl’s parents worked for hours and did not know about the alleged abuse of their daughter.

When the accusations appeared last month, some women in the community were nice to the accused and upset the survivor, according to the local press in news. The women criticized the girl’s clothing and lifestyle and blamed her mother for not watching her more closely, reported news. A mother, whose son was among the accused, said he was innocent. She said she met her girl since she was a child and “raised her face,” according to the exit.

The case did not arouse the same level of outrage observed in other cases of violence against women in India, such as rape and killing a trainee in Kolkata in August last year, which led to protests at national level. Experts and activists attribute this difference to the Delit identity of the victim.

Traditionally, Dals fulfills its occupations as “unclean” ritual of Hindu Scriptures, such as manual exhaustion, waste collection and street sweeping. Often they are forbidden to visit temples and are obliged to live apart from the communities with higher castes, often in the squts and further from access to services.

Despite the legislation that prohibits caste -based discrimination, activists say that the stigma leaves over 260 million Dalit from India vulnerable to abuse and less capable of seeking remedy for crimes committed.

“When are women in general, ultraj is less throughout the country,” said Cynthia Stephen, activist for Delit rights and social policy researcher. There is a feeling that “this girl is not” one of us, “she said.

The alleged abuse began when the young man in the village molested her on the girl and took sexually explicit videos and photos, CNN police said. At least three of her abusers have promised to marry her, according to the police. One threatened to kill her if she reported abuse. Some of the men acted alone, the police said. But others are accused of tape rape.

“It is not that all cases are connected. But, in a case, there could be four or five accused, “Begum said from Kerala Police.

Many of the men contacted the young woman on her father’s phone, through socializing applications, such as Instagram and WhatsApp, late at night after she slept, the police said. The alleged abuse took place in private and public spaces, in houses and cars, at bus and fields. Some of the cases would have involved men who were strangers, living in cities tens of miles away. Some of the cases involve charges of human trafficking, because men have forced it to travel outside of her village, the police said.

More than half of the Dalites in Kerala live in designated areas called “colonies”, known for the low and harsh living conditions, after years in which it refused the property on the land in accordance with the historical laws. Many women and girls living in these colonies do not have resources and privacy, making it more vulnerable to abuse, a Delit feminist activist from Kerala told CNN.

Madhumita Pandey, professor in criminology and gender justice at Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom, said that the close nature of communities such as these colonies could explain why the alleged abuse of adolescence was not reported. “Sometimes it could be your friend, uncle or neighbor,” she said. It may be harder to report abuse when “so-called monsters are in our yard,” she said.

The official statistics support her idea: the alleged perpetrator is known to the victim in more than 98% of the rape cases reported in Kerala, according to government data.

There were 4,241 cases reported by rape against women in oppressed castles in India, including Dalit Women, in 2022, the latest year for which there is data, according to the National Office of Crime Registry in India. This is equivalent to more than 10 rape a day. More than 31,500 rapes were reported in 2022, according to NCRB.

The case has highlighted the urgent need to approach the systemic problems that cause Dalit women to be particularly vulnerable to violence and abuse in India.

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