A teenage girl has been rescued by her father after she was
sold by a trafficking group, forced to marry twice and repeatedly raped.The
14-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was saved after a horrific
three months in captivity where she was forced to marry two different men,
repeatedly raped, abused, beaten and starved while locked in a room every
night.
She said, ‘I cannot digest it all. I can’t believe it has
happened to me. This was the most awful time. I will never forget it.‘I will
never get my old life back now. It is spoiled. The only thing I have done over
these months is cry. There were days when I felt like killing myself.’The girl
is from a poor family and they lived in a slum, in South Delhi, northern India.
That day she arrived home from school at around 2pm when her
neighbour a 26-year-old woman only
called Meenu invited her into her home.‘She
had been my neighbour for a while, I knew her, I had no reason to mistrust
her,’ the teenager said. ‘She made me a drink. And then she asked me if I
wanted to accompany her to the local temple, so I went along.’At the temple
they met with two men and they offered a Prasad food that is a religious offering in both
Hinduism and Sikhism which she took as
is usual. But that was last she remembers.The next thing she can recall is
waking up in a room with Meenu and a strange man.That 21-year-old man, called
Baljeet, 21, from Haryana, an area outside Delhi, was her new husband. He had
bought her for Rs 90,000 (£1,000).‘Thankfully this man was not a bad man,’ she
explains. ‘He needed to marry so he bought me. Meenu had told him I had come
from a bad family, where my mother beat me and my father raped me. But it was lies,
I had a wonderful family.‘I convinced him that I had a loving family back in
Delhi and I had been kidnapped. He eventually said he’d take me home. I was
overwhelmed with relief. I was so thankful. But he told Meenu and she went
crazy. He shouted at her for telling lies, but she wouldn’t allow him to take
me home. One night she turned up and took me away again. I was too terrified to
fight.’The teenager was sold a second time. This time she was dropped off at a
man’s house and she overheard him paying Rs 300,000 (£3,500) for her.This man Vishal, 22 beat and raped her every day. She added,‘He
kept me locked up all day and night. He raped me everyday. Sometimes, I was
raped 10 times a day. He was a drug addict and used to beat me with sticks,
belts, and slippers. I used to cook for him, clean his house, wash his clothes.‘Whenever
he left the house he locked me in the bathroom and I used to just sob.’One-day
last month, on November 20, she saw a very brief opportunity to escape.‘I heard
Vishal speaking to someone on the phone. He then went out but on this occasion
forgot to lock the door. I just ran. I didn’t second guess. I rushed out and
saw a shop with a shopkeeper.
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