The mother doesn’t believe her husband – the brother of her first husband, who fathered the rape victim – is innocent but prioritises her livelihood concerns. These NGOs and activists promising big things will not take care of me and my children for life. The mother earned Rs 5,000 a month cleaning homes and doing dishes and her husband earned Rs 10,000 as a worker in a private company. The mother said she did not believe when first told that her husband – the younger brother of her first husband who died of kidney failure – had raped the girl many times. Police got involved after the woman for whom the mother worked told the local police, who arrested the stepfather.

Source: Hindustan Times May 17, 2017 06:43 UTC