January 15, 2008

Bangladeshi child-rape-victim released

A nine-year-old rape victim who has spent six-months in a Bangladeshi jail, has been released following a national-outcry over her-plight.
"She was kept in jail for the convenience of the investigation, because if she was given to her mother; she might not have been found for the court hearing," said Jesmin Ara Rosy, of the Bangladesh National Women Lawyers' Association.

"Whenever I went to the jail, she cried and begged me to take her out. I met the judge four times to ask for her release," Rosy told AFP.
The girl was finally sent to a shelter on Tuesday, she added, after the head of the army, General Moeen U. Ahmed, intervened.

Via Inquirer.net

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