Kerala Catholic priest Robin Vadakkumchery, sentenced to 20 years in jail for raping & impregnating a minor girl, now "offers to marry" his victim. Rapists "offering to marry" their victims, is btw all too common in Indian courtrooms (see thread) thenewsminute.com/article/rapist…
In 2003, a nurse in Delhi's Shanti Mukand Hospital was raped, her eye gouged out, by a ward boy. Convicted for the crime, facing sentencing, the rapist offered to marry his victim. The judge ASKED THE VICTIM TO CONSIDER THE PROPOSAL for a day, delaying the sentencing!
The nurse said "(The rapist) made it sound like a favour. This was more shocking than the proposal itself. The most horrible thing in the whole business was the court having admitted such an application". Read Laxmi Murthy on this case
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Rapists offering to marry their victims implies that marriage wipes out the harm of rape, which is merely to a woman's or her family's "honour". In fact, such a marriage would be a life sentence of rape to the victim, a lifelong entitlement to the rapist to rape. #rapeculture
Here's a piece on the tendency of courts in India to entertain offers by rapists to marry their victims #rapeculture indiatogether.org/rapevict-women
