A man in New Delhi, India, convicted in the case of gang-raping and killing a woman in 2012, has incredibly blamed the victim for trying to fight her attackers off.
The Associated Press noted that Mukesh Singh, who was convicted for the rape and murder of the woman, said in a documentary that the victim should have stayed silent and allowed it.
Singh took his despicable comments a step further. He said that not only would the 23-year-old have survived had she remained quiet, but that the rape was her to teach her a lesson for being out so late at night. He was the bus driver, who took part in the gang rape after he picked up the Indian student and her male friend. When the men were done raping her, they penetrated her with foreign objects and she died later at a hospital.
"A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy," Singh said. "A decent girl won't roam around at 9 o'clock at night ... Housework and housekeeping is for girls, not roaming in discos and bars at night doing wrong things, wearing wrong clothes."
Of course, such deplorable comments have sparked outrage, but they also highlight an underlying problem in the male-dominated society. In 2014, several men were arrested for gang-raping and attacking a tourist and a missionary within days of each other and activists took to the streets to protest the all-too-common problem.
The documentary was done by English filmmaker Leslee Udwin and is titled India's Daughter.
As for Singh, he is set to be executed for the crime.