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Judi Lynn

(164,155 posts) Fri Jan 4, 2013, 05:10 PM Jan 2013

Indian woman jumps off moving train to flee rape [View all]

Source: Independent

Indian woman jumps off moving train to flee rape

The woman’s leap came in the aftermath of the fatal attack on the medical student and a male friend in Delhi last month

Andrew Buncombe
Friday 04 January 2013

A young woman is in a critical condition in hospital after she flung herself from a moving train to escape a sexual assault, the latest in a series of incidents that have highlighted the vulnerability of women in India.

As the authorities prepare for the latest court hearing over the rape and killing of a 23-year-old medical student, details emerged from the state of Bihar about the woman who jumped from her carriage after allegedly being molested by a paramilitary soldier.

“Her condition continues to be critical. A team of doctors is treating her. She has suffered injuries in her head and legs,” a police official told the IANS news agency.

The incident happened as the 25-year-old woman from Darjeeling was travelling on a train to Delhi on Thursday evening when the man tried to molest her after she visited the lavatory. After fighting him off, she then leapt from the Brahmaputra Mail train as it passed through the state of Bihar. The woman, who has two children, is being treated in a hospital in the city of Patna. A member of the Assam Rifles paramilitary force has been detained and charged.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/indian-woman-jumps-off-moving-train-to-flee-rape-8439044.html

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Indian woman jumps off moving train to flee rape [View all] Judi Lynn Jan 2013 OP

Poor woman. :( polly7 Jan 2013 #1

what the hell is going on there florida08 Jan 2013 #2

Same thing that goes on here Scootaloo Jan 2013 #10

+100 nt Mojorabbit Jan 2013 #47

+200 nt cbrer Jan 2013 #55

I suspect what is going on there is what has always gone on there. Comrade Grumpy Jan 2013 #11

Yes and no. It's an intensely sexist cuture where women are despised Warpy Jan 2013 #52

I read this in another article: polly7 Jan 2013 #58

i am hearing ya. sounded like free reign on women. hurtling selves off trains. seabeyond Jan 2013 #18

I think if I had to ride a train in India Doremus Jan 2013 #3

carry alka seltzer tablets... SummerSnow Jan 2013 #6

Insert the tablets, fall down and flail your arms and legs as if having a seizure. I like it. Doremus Jan 2013 #13

no need to go to that extreme Skittles Jan 2013 #17

Good one. Perhaps combined with a vacant stare and drool. Passing gas might work wonders too. nt Doremus Jan 2013 #37

Rapists aren't attracted to women. Rape is a crime of violence, not sexual attraction. yardwork Jan 2013 #20

Actually that's wrong FarrenH Jan 2013 #26

Sez who? yardwork Jan 2013 #27

says a great many sources FarrenH Jan 2013 #32

Psychology Today and random books listed on Amazon aren't authoritative sources. yardwork Jan 2013 #33

I did you the courtesy of googling some public sources on the internet FarrenH Jan 2013 #34

What is your point? That women are responsible for being raped because of the way they dress? yardwork Jan 2013 #35

No, that was not my point FarrenH Jan 2013 #36

I don't have the study at hand but almost all rapists can't remember what their victim was wearing riderinthestorm Jan 2013 #42

This message was self-deleted by its author FarrenH Jan 2013 #45

Deleted my looong reply FarrenH Jan 2013 #56

these would to the trick SemperEadem Jan 2013 #28

Yes, those are a last resort. Doremus Jan 2013 #38

that goes without saying SemperEadem Jan 2013 #57

The Vagina Dentata rendered true Hestia Jan 2013 #40

Rapes in USA compared to India golfguru Jan 2013 #4

Based on reported rapes, presumably DavidDvorkin Jan 2013 #5

I wonder if the women there are just afraid to report rapes. WhoWoodaKnew Jan 2013 #21

india's police are very corrupt, and of those who ARE reported many rapists end up going free JI7 Jan 2013 #24

That's one thing I was thinking DavidDvorkin Jan 2013 #29

As we know, rape leftynyc Jan 2013 #7

It is true that rape is under reported crime, but.... golfguru Jan 2013 #12

If they're unreported how do you know? Doremus Jan 2013 #14

Nope, just first hand observation golfguru Jan 2013 #15

Use your head for a change. Not every female wants to go through a trial. Judi Lynn Jan 2013 #16

Pound sand. nt Doremus Jan 2013 #39

Rapists get away with it in India far more than here JI7 Jan 2013 #23

You are right about inappropriate touching, not necessarily about rape golfguru Jan 2013 #44

that is just too simple, women are not always going to scream JI7 Jan 2013 #46

In my 20 years in India, I was never a scream away from people golfguru Jan 2013 #48

and i have travellled to india also , and people do have privacy and women don't always scream JI7 Jan 2013 #53

fbi says unreported rapes range 30-70%. pretty wide range of unknown. nt seabeyond Jan 2013 #19

That percentage may not vary from country to country as much? golfguru Jan 2013 #49

Statistics CSStrowbridge Jan 2013 #8

Can't say I agree with you based on my women relatives. golfguru Jan 2013 #50

very misleading, Rape is not reported in india as much as in the US JI7 Jan 2013 #22

How many years have you lived in India? golfguru Jan 2013 #51

and i don't live in other states in the US also and know we have issues here JI7 Jan 2013 #54

I categorically refuse to believe the Indian numbers you present there. (nt) Posteritatis Jan 2013 #25

The stats are straight from Wikipedia, your quarrel should be with them, not me..here is the link golfguru Jan 2013 #43

Delhi women gun for licences; rape triggers big rush to acquire arms dkf Jan 2013 #9

I love ya dkf but an untrained woman with a gun trying to fight off a trained military officer? riderinthestorm Jan 2013 #30

Well obviously one needs to be trained... dkf Jan 2013 #41

that explanation SemperEadem Jan 2013 #31