New Delhi, India

• Posted by REV. ANDRE G. DENIS D.D. January 9, 2013 - #phease111  - 809 views
  The horrific attack on the 23-year-old woman in New Delhi on December 16 has prompted angry protests over the country's treatment of women and handling of sexual attacks. It also stirred worldwide outrage. Some lawyers loudly criticizing their colleagues , "You will not defend those barbarians!" shouted one young lawyer, pointing his finger at Manohar Lal Sharma, one of those willing to represent ...the accused men. The local bar association last week vowed not to represent any of the suspects because of the nature of the crime they are accused of committing. The female victim of the attack, whose name has not been released, died late last month in a Singapore hospital, where she received treatment after being airlifted from New Delhi. The 28-year-old male victim, who survived with a broken leg, He said that he was beaten with a stick while the men raped his friend and hit her in the worst possible ways in the most private parts of her body. The driver used an iron bar in the attack, the man said their abductors drove the couple throughout the city for about two hours before dropping them below an overpass; he was unable to stand and had no clothes. The rape victim was the eldest of three siblings, with two younger brothers. A physiotherapy student, she was expecting an internship at a hospital in the Indian capital in January.
  "After her internship, she would have got a job. And that would have been a great help to our family," said the brother, himself a student.
  
  The family is still struggling with the traumatic loss, he said, and feels that recent protests in several Indian cities in response to the attack are justified. THE Rapists deserve death sentence