Police in the Jalpaiguri district said the girl had become pregnant twice during her alleged abuse, and had been forced to have an abortion both times.
The girl had attempted suicide four times, police said, adding that the girl’s mother had been aware of the alleged repeated rape of her child but had stayed silent.
Mukesh Singh, who appears in 'India's Daughter', claimed women are more responsible for rape than men
Official figures for the number of women raped in India are often disputed by Women's Rights experts who claim the numbers are far higher
Students of Convent of Jesus and Mary School participate in a protest against the alleged gang rape of a nun in her 70s‘India’s Daughter,’ the documentary focusing on the incident and the culture of sexual violence in India, included interviews with the perpetrators while in prison, one of whom claimed that “a girl is more responsible for rape than a boy”.
After feeling too scared to speak out about her alleged repeated abuse, the girl confided in a schoolteacher in the Dhupguri town of West Bengal on Thursday, when she was taken to the police and registered a complaint against the three men.
“Her father, a farmer aged around 50, allegedly raped her several times. She alleged that her uncle also raped her and of late her brother had also started,” police spokesman K.L. Sherpa told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
The teenager is now living in the custody of her aunt.
Reporting rape as a crime in India has surged since the fatal gang rape and attack of a woman on a moving bus in Delhi in 2012, which sparked mass protest across India, bringing a new global focus to the treatment of sexual abuse and crimes on the sub-continent.
Mukesh Singh, who appears in 'India's Daughter', claimed women are more responsible for rape than menOfficial figures for the number of women raped in India are often disputed by Women's Rights experts who claim the numbers are far higherStudents of Convent of Jesus and Mary School participate in a protest against the alleged gang rape of a nun in her 70s‘India’s Daughter,’ the documentary focusing on the incident and the culture of sexual violence in India, included interviews with the perpetrators while in prison, one of whom claimed that “a girl is more responsible for rape than a boy”.