audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - Sixteen-year-old Seenu was walking to her grandmother's house along a quiet street in northern India when a group of men dragged her her to a field, drugged then raped her in turns while filming the act on their cellphones. When Seenu (not her real name) awoke about an hour later, naked, bloodied, confused, she managed to make her way home. When her father, a gardener belonging to the ''untouchable'' or Dalit community which is the lowest of India's caste system found out what had happened to his only daughter, he killed himself. During the next few days, Seenu and her mother made several trips to the police, defying threats from her upper-caste attackers, some of whom she knew. Eventually, over 2 weeks since the gang rape, the Dalit community in her village held public protests and piled pressure on the police, only then were the first arrests made. Since then, seven more men have been arrested. Now living at her grandmother's home with six police officers as protection ahead of a court appearance, Seenu told reporters that rape victims like herself have problems reporting the crime ''because police don't respect them.''
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Jan. 29, 2013 - Dabra, India - SEENU KARBAL, 16, was raped by eight men. Her father took his life after the incident. Seenu reported the men and would like to help other women in the same situation.
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Jan. 29, 2013 - Dabra, India - The scene in a meadow is photographed where the rape of Seenu Karbal, 16, took place. After she reported the rape to the police, the family was threatened and forced to move.
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Jan. 29, 2013 - Dabra, India - SEENU KARBAL, 16, was raped by eight men. Her father took his life after the incident.
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Jan. 29, 2013 - Dabra, India - Seenu's room in Dabra sits empty as the family had to flee their home after she reported the rape to the police.
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Jan. 29, 2013 - Dabra, India - SEENU KARBAL, 16, speaks to a journalist. Karbal, was gang raped by eight men. After the media published the story about the attack, the rapists where arrested. Karbal and her family were forced to flee their village and she remains under guard as the trial begins.
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Jan. 29, 2013 - Dabra, India - RAJAT KALSAN, Karbal's lawyer, says her village is one of the worst places in the world to be a woman.
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