Eighteen men accused of repeatedly raping a girl for months

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Horrific details emerged from the brutal and repeated alleged rape of an 11-year-old schoolgirl in India, since 18 men were charged by the police.

The 11-year-old According to the police, a hearing-impaired girl was repeatedly raped by at least 18 men in a complex of apartments in the city of Chennai, in the east of the country .

A Chennai court charged security guards, electricians and plumbers. The lift operator – with the rape of a minor and ordered their detention on remand until July 31, reports news.com.au.

Police say the 66-year-old operator was the first to attack the girl after her return He would have urged other men, aged 23 to 66, to rape the child after having him given doped soft drinks to put him to sleep. According to local reports, the defendants took the girl to the basement, the terrace, the gym and the building's public toilets to conduct the attacks in the last seven months. They allegedly filmed raping the girl by waving knives before making her sing and threatening to broadcast her if she spoke to the police

"This is the initial step of the Investigation and we need to deepen the details "A local police official told AFP

that India has a grim record of sexual violence, but the incident has still shook the country to its core. Indian television channels have aired long segments of the press with headlines like "Chennai Horror"

"A whole community has reunited to rape a child, I can not even imagine depravity and l & # 39; Horror of this act, "said Rohini Singh. An Indian reporter, writing on Twitter

The case sparked a widespread uproar and some of the defendants were attacked by a group of lawyers during the court appearance, reported the Hindustan Times

]. The president of the Bar Association, Mohana Krishnan, told reporters at the Chennai High Court that no attorney was willing to appear on behalf of the accused, according to the BBC. Since the news was unveiled on Monday, local women volunteered to stand guard at the entrance to the complex, with residents firing the remaining staff.

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The Indian Government recently approved harsh sentences for sexual violence against children , including the death penalty for those convicted of rape under the age of 12.

The decision violated violently after the rape and murder of the deceased. a year-old girl in Jammu – who died after kidnapping, drug addicts and gang rapes while he's locked up in a Hindu temple – and several other cases of sexual assault involving minors these month.

In May, a teenager from central India was set on fire as local men raped their daughter, the NY Times reported. In June, a seven-year-old boy was raped in the state of Madhya Pradesh, also in central India. Subsequently, the two men cut her throat and let her die

. A poll released in June by the Thomson Reuters Foundation named India as the most dangerous country in the world for women.

In India, rape occurs at least every 20 minutes, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau. Some 19,000 attacks against minors were reported in 2016, but large numbers are never brought to the attention of the police.