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INDIA CHILD SEX ABUSE: RAPED FOR MONEY “BY HER FATHER’S FRIENDS”. Every weekend for two years, men would come home and rape her, the 12-year-old told counsellors. Some were known to her father, some were not.
December 11, 2019
Soutik Biswas
BBC
It all began, she said, with her father inviting friends home for drinks. The inebriated men would tease and grope her in front of her parents. Sometimes, she said, the men would disappear into their single, musty bedroom with her mother.
Then one day, the girl recounted, her father pushed her into the bedroom with one of his friends and locked the door from outside. The man raped her.
Childhood soon became a nightmare. Her father would call up men, booking their time with his daughter, and taking money