Spanish tourist gang-raped in India (www.euronews.com)

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Content warning: mentions rape, sexual assault.

A Spanish tourist has suffered a group sexual assault in the Dumka district while travelling around the world with her husband.

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[-] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Do you really think that underneath a headline saying "Spanish tourist gang-raped in India", that you need to warn the reader that the news article includes content about rape?

Are there people who would open it thinking "Ach it's probably a misprint, I bet she just ended up dancing through flowery meadows and cuddling fluffy bunnies the whole holiday"?

[-] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 8 points 9 months ago

It's easy to include, and the way information is displayed can vary across the clients, but yes it is redundant information.

[+] Ahoy@lemmynsfw.com -22 points 9 months ago

Always the same news coming from India, are they really that worse than every other country or what's going on.

Also what was the husband doing, article doesn't mention him. Did he just sit there and watch?

[-] Municipal0379@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

Victim blame much????

Rape is endemic in India, that’s why this is always being reported.

[-] curiousaur@reddthat.com 0 points 9 months ago

What do you think it is about the Indian people that would make rape so endemic?

[+] Ahoy@lemmynsfw.com -9 points 9 months ago

I'm not blaming the poor woman, I'm asking what the husband did. They say she travelled with her husband and that she was raped in the tent she was sleeping in. They never follow up on the husband. Was he in the tent and did nothing, or was he somewhere else.

Put in another way, why the hell didn't the husband intervene.

[-] Numenor@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

Gang

[-] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I can tell you didnt read the article. Let me help you out by quoting a relevant bit here:

Another official mentioned the involvement of seven to eight youths.

It typically only takes at most 3-4 people to effectively restrain a grown man. That leaves another 3-4 to restrain and rape his wife. It seems they had sufficient numbers to achieve this with little trouble, even if they were unarmed. And I see no reason to assume they'd have been unarmed. Put a knife to his throat and it only takes one person to restrain him.

[-] Ahoy@lemmynsfw.com -1 points 9 months ago

I can tell you didnt read the article. Let me help you out by quoting a relevant bit here:

You think I summed up what happened according to the article without reading it? Lol

Another official mentioned the involvement of seven to eight youths.

It typically only takes at most 3-4 people to effectively restrain a grown man. That leaves another 3-4 to restrain and rape his wife. It seems they had sufficient numbers to achieve this with little trouble, even if they were unarmed. And I see no reason to assume they'd have been unarmed. Put a knife to his throat and it only takes one person to restrain him.

If had to choose between a trip to the hospital or watching my wife get raped, I'll take the trip to the hospital. I reckon living out your life knowing you did nothing is worse.

[-] quindraco@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago

They attacked both, and the husband was "hit repeatedly". I would hazard a guess he was too fucked up by the assault to do much.

[-] Municipal0379@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I saw a video today, the husband was fucked up during this attack.

[-] Ahoy@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 9 months ago

Thanks for clearing it up, no idea why the article didn't mention him.

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