Chandra was unable to speak, sit, stand, or walk independently, so she could not call for help or go home. In June 2013, Chandra, a 12-year-old girl with cerebral palsy, was kidnapped, raped and left bleeding in a field near her home in West Bengal state, India. Sanjay Gunjyal, inspector general of police from Uttarakhand
It is important to sensitize every officer-from top to bottom. Susmita, 26, a woman with a psychosocial disability from Kolkata, West Bengal, whom four male neighbors sedated and gang-raped in February 2014 should be sensitized to the emotional and the psychological needs of the victim and how to work with women and girls with disabilities. I told them I was totally unconscious, so how would I know? The police said things like, ‘She’s mental, why should I pay attention to her?’ Summary The police asked me very nasty things like how it felt for me.