CHENNAI, India — After school, when the year-old girl rode her bicycle around the well-to-do apartment complex where she lived with her family in Chennai in southeastern India, an elevator attendant would find her and lead her to a basement, a rooftop or a public bathroom. Once there, he would inject her with an orange liquid or feed her a cold drink likely laced with drugs to immobilize her, then tie a belt around her neck and rape her, she later told her older sister. Over the course of seven months, they, too, raped and molested her, possibly dozens of times, using makeup to cover any marks they left on her, her sister said. A current of rage shot through Chennai last week after the police arrested 17 men , ages 23 to 66, for the assaults. Lawyers beat several of the men as they were curled up on the floor of a local courthouse. Frantic residents of the building where the girl lived organized round-the-clock shifts guarding the entrance. But a few days later, the police stopped answering calls from reporters. Around Chennai, people blamed the mother. She referred angrily to a news report about a woman who said she was raped by 40 men over four days.


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In the gated community in Chennai, India, where the girl lived with her parents, the men gave her soft drinks laced with drugs, the police said. They filmed themselves raping her, brandishing knives and threatening to release the videos if the girl told her family, the police said. The men were not intruders in the gated community, but employees who greeted residents, operated the elevator or brought water coolers to apartments. When news broke on Monday that the authorities in Chennai, a coastal city in the southeast, had arrested 17 men accused of raping or molesting the girl over a period of seven months, chaos erupted at the complex in an older part of the city.
It is positively shocking. Yet another reason I respect doctors so much-their emotional strength. All 3 times I talked to a shrink to get an objective opinion.