Brazil: Rape inquiry over teenaged girl jailed with 20 men
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Brazil: Rape inquiry over teenaged girl jailed with 20 men
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The Guardian - Nov 24, 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/brazil/story/0,,2216361,00.html
Rape inquiry over girl jailed with 20 men
by Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Authorities in the Brazilian Amazon came under fire this week after
reports that a 16-year-old girl had been repeatedly raped and tortured
while being held in a prison cell with at least 20 men.
According to reports in the Brazilian press, the teenager was arrested
last month after being caught stealing in Abaetetuba, a town on the
outskirts of Belem, the capital of the Amazon state Para.
She reportedly spent 26 days in a cell at the local police station,
although no formal charges were brought. This week the girl emerged
from custody covered in bruises and cigarette burns.
The state governor, Ana Julia Carepa, ordered an inquiry following
claims the teenager was locked up with the male prisoners for at least
a month and was forced to have sex in exchange for food.
Carepa told the Estado news agency there were signs that the girl had
been deliberately imprisoned in order for other prisoners to sexually
exploit her. On Thursday four policemen were suspended. "It does not
matter if she is 15, 20, 50 or 80 years old. A woman should not be
held in a cell together with men," the governor said.
The regional human rights representative of Brazil's Lawyers
Association, Mary Cohen, said she believed the girl had been subjected
to "every imaginable type of physical and sexual aggression".
The revelations have unearthed other cases in which women were
apparently imprisoned alongside men.
On Wednesday there were reports that a 23-year-old woman had shared a
cell with about 70 men in the town of Parauapebas, also in the state of
Para.
Amnesty International's Brazil researcher, Tim Cahill, said: "We
receive extensive reports of women in detention who suffer sexual
abuse, torture, substandard healthcare and inhuman conditions, showing
that this case is far from isolated but continues to be hidden from
the public."
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Marcio Osorio
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> Brazil: Rape inquiry over teenaged girl jailed with 20 men
20 women? Would they all have fun? Well?
Titix
"Marcio Osorio" <marci...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1180ed9a-a6f1-4c3b...@j20g2000hsi.googlegroups.com...
Ummm, the boy will probably ask to be jailed again, over and over.
Would you blame him?