In Brazil, a 15-year-old girl was placed in an all-male adult jail where she was raped and tortured for 26 days.
It is hard to believe that this could happen in this day and age.
What's worse is that those who should have protected her - the jail officials, the police, the judge and even the public defender- left her in this defenseless position.
Her jailers allegedly shaved her head to make her look more like a boy. Here's a horrible irony. The judge who sent this young woman to the male jail was a woman.
Thankfully, the girl, accused of petty theft, was released and is now in protective custody. But the judicial system is sadly broken in this South American nation and those who victimized this girl should be punished from the judge to the rapists.
This case should lead to much needed reform and greater defense of women's rights.
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Protective custody of who, the U.N.? As long as she remains in that country she is not safe.
I have always said an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. That sick judge should have her head shaved and put in the same jail that the child was put in. And let's see if the men don't notice her breast what was she thinking............That was sick. Well what can we say she from South America go figure. Let's see if La Dra. Laura will help this sick judge