Rights body stands by tortured girl
The 17-year-old mentally challenged girl, who was confined and tortured for around two months in a Jamalpur brothel, at last has been provided with legal aid by Bangladesh Manobadhikar Bastobayan Sangstha, a human rights organisation.
The organisation helped the victim's mother file a case on Thursday under Women and Children Repression Prevention Act with Dhamrai Police Station accusing the rickshaw-van puller Shahjahan and five or six unknown persons. It will also help the victim run the case.
In a primary investigation, it found the story true and decided to provide her with legal aid so that the people responsible can be punished, said a press release.
On January 10, the mentally challenged girl left her Dhamrai residence in Dhaka with Shahjahan, a married man and a resident of her neighbouring Kashipur village. He allured her to make her his second wife. But he sold her to the brothel.
She was beaten in the brothel regularly when she refused to satisfy men. At a stage, the captors put her on a Dhaka-bound bus after they found her physical condition deteriorated.
Later, she was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where she has been undergoing treatment since April 4. The Daily Star published a report on this brutality on May 1.
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