Indian woman who tried to drown herself in thesea alongside her parents and four sisters inmass suicide attempt washes up on beach alive…only to be raped by fishermen who find her

A woman who was washed ashore alive after
attempting to drown herself alongside her parents
and four sisters claims she was raped by two
fisherman who found her lying unconscious on
the beach.

The victim and her family had attempted a mass
suicide on December 18 after they were evicted
from their home in Puducherry, India.
Two of the sisters and the mother drowned while
the two other sisters, the victim and the father
were washed ashore at different locations along
the coast.
The victim, who was found around a kilometre
from the scene of the suicide attempt, says she
was raped while lying unconscious on the shore.
Police reviewed security camera recordings from
hotels and guesthouses in the area and noticed
two men acting suspiciously at the time of the
attack.

The two suspects, identified as crabcatchers S
Raja, 35 and his relative K Vijaykumar, 32, from
Pillaichavadi, Villupuram district, Tamil Nadu,
were arrested the next day.
Senior superintendent of police V J Chandran
claims they have confessed to raping the
woman.
The family had been living in an ashram, a type of
small monastery that are common across India,
when they were evicted following a Supreme
Court order.


India is fighting an endemic rape culture which
first came to international attention brought in
2012 by the shocking case of a woman who died
after being gang raped in New Delhi.

The country brought in tougher laws last year
against sexual offenders after the fatal gang-rape
of a student in New Delhi in December 2012, but
they have failed to stem the tide of violence
against women.
A survey published last week said 91 per cent of
women also saw no improvements in safety
despite a slew of measures rolled out in the
aftermath of the attack including improved
policing, women's helplines and fast-track courts
as well as the new law.
The survey by the Hindustan Times newspaper of
2,557 women also found that 97 percent had
been victims themselves of some kind of sexual
harassment.

(source:dailymail.co.uk)