She gets up from her bed at night and sits on the floor weeping. Almost a week after she was gang-raped on the banks of the Jabi stream near the Armed Police Force battalion in Chandrauta, Kapilvastu district, the victim is haunted by nightmares, has lost appetite and shown signs of withdrawal.With tears in her eyes, she shows the bite marks and bruises on her body parts; they are everywhere on her cheeks, lips, neck, stomach, breast and buttocks.
On Saturday noon, hospital workers were helping the victim with lunch. She would reluctantly put a bit of rice and dal into her mouth, only to throw up immediately. The wound inside her mouth has not healed and she has difficulty swallowing salted food.She has been like this ever since the incident,” said her sister-in-law. “On the first day she showed enough strength to show the police where she had been dragged and where the incident had taken place but has withdrawn since.”The speech-impaired woman was gang-raped on Sunday. The victim communicated using fingers of both her hands that she was dragged to the riverbank and raped by 10 men. She was brought to Kathmandu for treatment on Thursday. While she is getting medical attention, the investigation and subsequent prosecution of the perpetrators is not getting the due attention, rights activist say.
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