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[–] A_A 85 points 6 months ago (4 children)
[–] Live_Let_Live 33 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] A_A 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

spoileri guess Uttar Pradesh (before reading)
States
Andhra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam
Bihar
Chhattisgarh
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra
Manipur
Meghalaya
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim
Tamil Nadu
Telangana
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand
West Bengal
Union territories
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Chandigarh
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Jammu and Kashmir
Ladakh
Lakshadweep
National Capital Territory of Delhi
Puducherry

Edit : After reading the article :
Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India

[–] Buddahriffic 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I clicked the link into this thread and thought, "it's gotta be India", then, "that's not fair, rape happens all over the globe, even to children". It was India.

[–] A_A 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I think there are clues in the title ... it was nothing like : "A priest culprit of assaulting dozens of children over many decades" ...

[–] Buddahriffic 8 points 6 months ago

Yeah, actually, the bash head with rock to hide identity would have given away that it wasn't likely a western country (where bashed in head guarantees murder investigation and DNA testing is likely). "Private watchman" was another hint. As was "bid". Written by someone who knows the language well but not natively.

[–] guacupado 8 points 6 months ago

lmao my first reaction was "Weird, the title doesn't say India in it."

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Pretty awful stories coming out of India lately...

[–] Linkerbaan 43 points 6 months ago

India has a large popultion and Uttar Pradesh is an ultra right wing racist state that simps for Modi and the BJP. This has been going on there for quite a while. It's not a new thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Always have been.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Similar stories aren't new in India, at the same time if we were to take a sample of one billion people from richer countries I'm pretty sure we would be able to find just as many similar stories, they would just come from different countries.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I highly doubt that. It’s a cultural thing, not a numbers issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

600 000 child are abused each year just in the USA.

Gun violence is the leading cause of children death in the USA with more than six a day being homicides.

So with just over a third of a billion we already have enough headlines to make India look no worse than richer countries...

[–] Squizzy -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah but ye are a joke.

Hardly a developed nation outside of billionaire population and pageantry

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not from the USA, but ok...

The education level of the USA is still much higher than in India and there's less inequality...

[–] Squizzy 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So with just over a third of a billion we already have enough headlines to make India look no worse than richer countries...

The we threw me off, I get what you meant now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I've been talking using we from the beginning as I'm talking about if we collectively took the time to compare to other richer countries amounting to as much population, I'm pretty sure India wouldn't look as bad as it does now...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I don't see it being similar. If you look at certain religious fanatic ~~countries~~ places, there would be stories with the offender just walking away and suffering no consequences. And for the more developed ones, this one by A_A gives a good outline

[–] joyjoy 28 points 6 months ago (4 children)

It wasn't a failed rape bid. It was a failed rape attempt. There wasn't an auction like I was thinking based on what I read in the title.

[–] Copernican 54 points 6 months ago

Just non native English speaking translation. A bid can meet an attempt, like a bid for re election.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

One of the meanings of 'bid' is to attempt to achieve something

e.g. "In a bid to escape, he jumped down the waterfall"

Doesn't mean money is involved. But I agree it's a poor choice of phrase for this headline.

And either way, very bad news =(

[–] a_baby_duck 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm not sure what "rape bid" is even supposed to mean, in any context. Doesn't "bid" imply something that can be accepted?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Don't worry, someone made a whole page about bid. It's actually kind of crazy how in-depth it goes, so search for [Subject-Verb], I think that's the relevant bit.

... Also, did you know you can highlight text and paste in a link and it formats everything for you??? Bless.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I think it’s more of a translation issue.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

What the hell. People like that belong in an asylum, prison. Whatever it is.

I’m so sorry for the little girl and her family.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

They don’t belong on Earth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

A stainless steel rapist masticator?