Citizens demand justice

[NewsWhore]

Yesterday citizens held a vigil outside the Supreme Court, calling for justice for a 12-year old girl who was raped by six men over the course of two days. Director of the Women and Health Collective Sergia Galvan and director of the Women's Ministry defense office, Clara Luna, along with two of the girl's aunts presented a document to Supreme Court chief judge Jorge Subero Isa and Dominican Attorney General Radhames Jimenez Pena. The statement called for strong punishment for the six men. The gruesome tale indicates that the child is an orphan and that just days prior to her own ordeal, she witnessed her mother being raped. Days later, according to Listin Diario, her mother was murdered and the child herself was raped. Protestors are asking why Ernesto Perez, the only person who was jailed for the crime, was subsequently released from prison. The protesters are also calling for an investigation into the way the Jimani police department handled the case, and their alleged complicity in helping accused rapist Tirson Vasquez Mancebo to escape. Marisol Tobal, director of the Children and Young People's Department is complaining publicly that violence against children is not taken seriously.

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