14-year-old rape survivor found dead in Chhattisgarh shelter

A 14-year-old girl who survived a rape was found dead in a washroom at a shelter home in Jashpur district, Chhattisgarh. Police reported that the girl allegedly hanged herself on Tuesday morning. The girl had been living in the shelter home for counseling after she reported the rape to police on March 15. She claimed that a teenage boy from her village had assaulted her last year. The girl's mother had passed away, and her father is mentally ill, according to her statement. After she lodged her complaint, the accused boy was arrested and sent to a juvenile home. Police have registered a case of unnatural death and are investigating the circumstances surrounding her death.