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A six-year-old girl was drowned in a water tank and her head was smashed with a stone to hide her identity after a failed rape bid, 43-year-old private watchman arrested (www.ndtv.com)

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[-] A_A@lemmy.world 85 points 10 months ago

in india

[-] Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

and we know the state

[-] A_A@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

spoiler

i guess Uttar Pradesh (before reading)
States
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chhattisgarh
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Telangana
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
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Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Chandigarh
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Jammu and Kashmir
Ladakh
Lakshadweep
National Capital Territory of Delhi
Puducherry

Edit : After reading the article :
Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

I clicked the link into this thread and thought, "it's gotta be India", then, "that's not fair, rape happens all over the globe, even to children". It was India.

[-] A_A@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think there are clues in the title ... it was nothing like : "A priest culprit of assaulting dozens of children over many decades" ...

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah, actually, the bash head with rock to hide identity would have given away that it wasn't likely a western country (where bashed in head guarantees murder investigation and DNA testing is likely). "Private watchman" was another hint. As was "bid". Written by someone who knows the language well but not natively.

[-] guacupado@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

lmao my first reaction was "Weird, the title doesn't say India in it."

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 38 points 10 months ago

Pretty awful stories coming out of India lately...

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

India has a large popultion and Uttar Pradesh is an ultra right wing racist state that simps for Modi and the BJP. This has been going on there for quite a while. It's not a new thing.

[-] NOOBMASTER@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Always have been.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Similar stories aren't new in India, at the same time if we were to take a sample of one billion people from richer countries I'm pretty sure we would be able to find just as many similar stories, they would just come from different countries.

[-] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago

I highly doubt that. It’s a cultural thing, not a numbers issue.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

600 000 child are abused each year just in the USA.

Gun violence is the leading cause of children death in the USA with more than six a day being homicides.

So with just over a third of a billion we already have enough headlines to make India look no worse than richer countries...

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yeah but ye are a joke.

Hardly a developed nation outside of billionaire population and pageantry

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

I'm not from the USA, but ok...

The education level of the USA is still much higher than in India and there's less inequality...

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

So with just over a third of a billion we already have enough headlines to make India look no worse than richer countries...

The we threw me off, I get what you meant now.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

I've been talking using we from the beginning as I'm talking about if we collectively took the time to compare to other richer countries amounting to as much population, I'm pretty sure India wouldn't look as bad as it does now...

[-] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 10 months ago

I don't see it being similar. If you look at certain religious fanatic ~~countries~~ places, there would be stories with the offender just walking away and suffering no consequences. And for the more developed ones, this one by A_A gives a good outline

[-] joyjoy@lemmy.world 28 points 10 months ago

It wasn't a failed rape bid. It was a failed rape attempt. There wasn't an auction like I was thinking based on what I read in the title.

[-] Copernican@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago

Just non native English speaking translation. A bid can meet an attempt, like a bid for re election.

[-] tiramichu@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

One of the meanings of 'bid' is to attempt to achieve something

e.g. "In a bid to escape, he jumped down the waterfall"

Doesn't mean money is involved. But I agree it's a poor choice of phrase for this headline.

And either way, very bad news =(

[-] a_baby_duck@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Yeah I'm not sure what "rape bid" is even supposed to mean, in any context. Doesn't "bid" imply something that can be accepted?

[-] Vampiric_Luma@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Don't worry, someone made a whole page about bid. It's actually kind of crazy how in-depth it goes, so search for [Subject-Verb], I think that's the relevant bit.

... Also, did you know you can highlight text and paste in a link and it formats everything for you??? Bless.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

I think it’s more of a translation issue.

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago

What the hell. People like that belong in an asylum, prison. Whatever it is.

I’m so sorry for the little girl and her family.

[-] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 months ago

They don’t belong on Earth.

[-] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

A stainless steel rapist masticator?

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