Young India girls raped, murdered and dumped in well, police say as manhunt begins

Indians participate in a candlelight vigil protesting against a leader of the ruling Congress party on accusations he raped a woman in a village in the early hours of the morning in Gauhati, India, Jan. 4, 2013. / AP Photo
Updated 6:00 p.m. ET
Indian police said Thursday that they have launched a manhunt for men suspected of raping and killing three sisters, aged 5 to 11, in the latest case of sexual violence to grip the country.
The sisters' bodies were found in a village well in Bhandara district in Maharashtra state on Feb. 14 after they had gone missing from school, police officer Javed Ahmed said. The area is more than 1,000 kilometers (630 miles) south of New Delhi, the capital.
As the victims' mother accused police of a shoddy investigation, enraged villagers forced shops to close, burned tires and blocked a national highway passing through the area for several hours on Wednesday, demanding justice.
"The police did not take the case seriously and did nothing for two days," the CNN-IBN television news channel quoted the mother as saying. Her name was withheld.
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One police officer has been suspended for not acting promptly, Indian Heavy Industries Minister Praful Patel, who represents Bhandara district in Parliament, told reporters in New Delhi.
"It is unacceptable. All of us have to hang our heads in shame," Patel said.
Cabinet Minister Manish Tewari called the killings a "very, very heinous assault" and announced that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was sending 1 million rupees ($18,300) to the family. The central government has asked state investigators to keep them informed of the investigation.
The fatal gang rape of a young woman in a moving bus in New Delhi on Dec. 16 set off nationwide protests about India's treatment of women. Five men are being tried on rape and murder charges.
India's women revolt against a culture of rape
CBS News correspondent Holly Williams reported from New Delhi this week that India is having a cultural crisis after the brutal attack in the capital. That crime unleashed a wave of protests over the treatment of women in Indian society.
Thousands of protestors have taken to the streets, angry over what they say is an epidemic of harassment and violence against women.
Garima Shrivastara organized some of the protests. She says that Indian women live with fear every day.
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1. Missouri Congressman Todd Akin, a conservative Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, said in an interview broadcast Sunday that women's bodies can prevent pregnancies in the case of "a legitimate rape," adding that conception in such cases is rare.
2. Mike Huckabee: Rapes create 'extraordinary' people | Mail Online
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Mike-Huckabee-Rapes-create-extraordinary-...3 hours ago - ... presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has said 'forcible rape' creates 'extraordinary' people as he defends Rep. Todd Akin's rape comments.
3. October, 2012 A Wisconsin state representative is drawing heat for saying that his father had told him when he was young that "some girls rape easy" as a way to warn him that a woman could agree to sex but then later claim that it wasn't consensual.
Freshman Wisconsin Rep. Roger Rivard (R-Rice Lake) in December discussed a case with the Chetek Alert newspaper in which a 17-year-old high school senior was charged with sexual assault for having sex with an underage girl in the school's band room.
4. Sharron Angle, who ran for a US Senate seat out of Nevada, said she would tell a young girl wanting an abortion after being raped and impregnated by her father that "two wrongs don't make a right" and that she should make a "lemon situation into lemonade".
5. Douglas Henry, a Tennessee state senator, told his colleagues: "Rape, ladies and gentlemen, is not today what rape was. Rape, when I was learning these things, was the violation of a chaste woman, against her will, by some party not her spouse."
Most bizarre is from a woman:
6. Republican activist Phyllis Schlafly declared that marital rape doesn't exist, because when you get married you sign up to be sexually available to your husband at all times.
Clean up your act
Killing,Vendettas,Brutality,Rape,Incest,and Savagery toward your fellow human beings is off the wall and pays no dividends
Other than to show the viciousness of Indian Society , Pakistan not much better either
Why is it our media and other vested interest pick and choose which pet topics are used to (effectively) meddle in other countries with?
And I agree with you - there is no excuse for people hurting others for self gain, of which rape is a fairly cut and dry example of such a thing.