3 year old Afghan girl raped; family says her life is "now over" [View all]
TRIGGER ALERT. There is a video at the link that contains some disturbing images.
Think torturing, raping and strangling a 3 year old girl child isn't horrific enough? Should she survive, little Neelofar faces a lifetime of shunning by her society.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30127463
20 November 2014
Rape of three-year-old girl shocks Afghans
By Richard Galpin
BBC News, Kabul
...Neelofar is in a critical condition after being raped and urgently needs specialist medical treatment which she can only get in the capital...
...Exhausted, hungry and thirsty - he had not eaten for days - he told me his daughter's life was now over.
In this male-dominated and segregated society, rape victims are viewed as outcasts, even as prostitutes.
Marriage is almost impossible and a sense of shame hangs over the entire family....
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