India has a 'police problem'

[DrLeftover]

Rights activists and officials said the girl's parents went to police Monday to report their daughter was missing, but that police refused to register a case. The parents are poor construction workers who had migrated to the city some years ago in search of work.

"The police did nothing. They did not register a complaint, the first step before they can begin investigations," said Ranjana Kumari, a women's rights activist and social scientist. "This heinous crime could have been prevented if police had begun investigations promptly."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/20/indian-girl-rape/2098843/

 

[Jazzy]

Very sad that this little 5 year old girl was raped and left for dead. The police have a lot to answer for here. Reading the story, I'm wondering what the parents were doing to find their daughter:

The girl went missing Monday and was found Wednesday by neighbors who heard her crying in a room in the same New Delhi building where she lives with her parents, said Delhi police official Deepak Mishra.

Maybe if they conducted their own search, they would have found her before the attack happened.