(AFP/Getty Images)Over the course of a week, three teenage girls in India have been raped and set on fire — killing two of them and leaving a third in critical condition. The first of the three girls set ablaze this month was kidnapped from her home last Thursday in Jharkhand while her family attended a wedding. The girl's father demanded retribution through his village council, which ordered four of the accused men to do 100 situps each and pay the girl's family a little more than $700. Last Saturday, also in Jharkhand state, a 17-year-old girl who had rejected an older man's marriage proposal was raped and allegedly set on fire by the same man. “She was only 8 years old.”Read moreTwo teenage girls were raped and set on fire in India last weekAn 8-year-old girl's gang rape and murder trigger new outrage over India's rape culture

Source: Washington Post May 12, 2018 16:55 UTC