13-Year-Old Girl Abducted Twice, Raped By 9 Men

A 13-year-old Indian girl was abducted twice and raped by a total of nine men within a week, police said.

The police arrested seven of the accused men on Friday and are on the lookout for two others, reported The Hindu.

The teen girl from the northern Indian state of Madhya Pradesh was first abducted on Jan. 4 by a person known to her and was taken into a secluded location. She was allegedly raped by the accused and his six other friends. Before leaving on Jan. 5, the accused threatened the minor that she would be killed if she files a complaint. The girl got scared and did not file a complaint after the incident.

She was abducted again on Jan. 11 by one of the men who previously raped her. She was held captive in jungles as well as in a roadside eatery and was raped by three of the men involved in the previous incident, police said.

The horror did not end with the second abduction, however. The three men allegedly allowed the teen girl to leave but she was raped again by two truck drivers, reported local news outlet NDTV.

The victim finally managed to flee and return home on Friday morning.

"She was in a state of shock and mental trauma and unable to talk properly," Vikas Shahwal, Superintend of Police told local news outlet Times of India. She was given counseling for 20 hours after which she started to speak. The girl revealed the horrific details of the crime during counseling.

"According to the doctors, she has not sustained any major injuries but she is in deep mental trauma and shock. We have kept her under observation at one stop [sic] crisis center, where she is being counseled," Shahwal added.

In a similar incident reported in Madhya Pradesh earlier this month, a 45-year-old woman was allegedly raped by four men. According to a report from CNBC, the suspects broke into the victim's home and raped her. She was seriously injured after the suspects inserted an iron rod into her private parts. The victim suffered excessive bleeding and was treated at a hospital. The police arrested the suspects on charges of rape and trespassing.