Hyderabad: In a meeting with Telangana Director General of Police (DGP) Anjani Kumar, the Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT) leader Amjed Ullah Khan expressed concern and demanded a thorough inquiry regarding the rape of a minor girl at the Telangana Minorities Residential Educational Institutions Society (TMREIS) premises.
According to Khan, the incident took place on March 24 when the minor student, who became pregnant, gave birth to a baby girl at the TMREIS hostel in Narayankhed, Sangareddy district.
In his letter to the DGP, Khan stated that soon after the birth, the baby was abandoned in a dustbin, 15 km away from the hostel. The infant was rescued by sub-inspector Narayana of the Sirgapur police after some locals alerted him. The baby is currently under the care of the Women and Child Welfare Committee.
Khan said that as soon as the incident came to light, the TMREIS staff tried to lodge a fake complaint against him and the sub-inspector who rescued the baby.
Khan had earlier tweeted about the incident on April 6 where he questioned how after regular medical checkups at the TMREIS hostel the incident was undetected for nine months.
“Even after TMREIS ‘s claims of conducting regular medical checkups, how come the minor girl become pregnant? How did the matter go undetected for nine months? Under whose pressure did the Sirgapur police dint lodge an FIR and investigate the case?” he questioned.
The following day, Khan shot a letter to chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) regarding the incident and demanded the installation of CCTV cameras on the hostel premises and the deployment of women constables for the safety of girl students.
On the same day (April 7) an FIR was lodged under the POCSO Act (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act) at the Narayankhed police station.
MBT leader Amjed Ullah Khan at the Narayankhed police station
The letter accuses the TMREIS principal and staff members of brushing the matter under the carpet and not alerting the police.
According to the latest reports, the principal, deputy warden and staff nurse of the hostel have been suspended by the TMREIS department.
On Tuesday, the suspended principal filed a counter FIR stating that she was being wrongly accused of conducting prostitution in the hostel.
Carroll, a magazine writer, testified for a second day in her civil lawsuit against the former president. She is suing him for battery and defamation. He has said the alleged incident “never happened.”
The questioning got off to a terse start as Tacopina wished Carroll “good morning” twice before she would reply to him. “There ya go,” he said when she finally responded.
Carroll has said that she believes the alleged attack at Bergdorf Goodman occurred in the evening on a day between the fall of 1995 and the spring of 1996, and under questioning from her own lawyer on Wednesday, she added that she believes it took place on a Thursday. A former Bergdorf employee testified that Thursdays were the only nights of the week the luxury department store stayed open late.
But Carroll has repeatedly said she can’t recall exactly what date it happened.
On Thursday, Tacopina questioned why Carroll said only now that it was a Thursday and why neither she nor two friends she says she told contemporaneously can recall the date.
“I wish to heaven we could give you a date,” Carroll said. “I wish we could give you a date.”
Carroll testified that she always had a hunch the alleged attack occurred on a Thursday, but didn’t identify the day of the week in a book she wrote or in interviews because she wasn’t absolutely sure and “I tried to stick to the facts.”
Tacopina also questioned Carroll about a 2017 email referencing Trump between her and her friend Carol Martin, in which Martin wrote: “As soon as we are both well enuf to scheme, we must do our patriotic duty again …” Carroll responded: “TOTALLY!!! I have something special for you when we meet.”
When Carroll testified, as she had also done Wednesday, that she couldn’t recall what the email meant, Tacopina asked how she could remember details from the alleged rape from at least 27 years ago but couldn’t recall anything about a six-year-old email.
“Those are facts that I could never forget,” Carroll said of the alleged attack. “This is an email among probably hundreds of emails between Carol and I that I have no recollection of.”
Tacopina also pressed Carroll on why she went public with her story when she did, in 2019. Though Tacopina suggested she was using the claim to try to attract a book publisher, Carroll disputed that, saying she was instead prompted by revelations about film producer Harvey Weinstein’s sexual predation in The New York Times in 2017.
“When that happened, across the country women began telling their stories, and I was flummoxed [and thought], wait a minute, can we actually speak up and not be pummeled?” Carroll testified. “I thought, well this may be a way to change the culture of sexual violence. The light dawned. I thought, we can actually change things if we all tell our stories. And I thought by god, this may be the time.”
She continued: “It caused me to realize that staying silent does not work. It doesn’t work. If women speak up, we have a chance of limiting the harm that happens.”
Tacopina challenged Carroll on specific details of her account of the alleged rape.
He pressed her on her recollection that she didn’t see anyone in the department store as she and Trump rode the escalators to the sixth floor. “I was not looking for other people,” she said. “I was in a very engaging conversation with Donald Trump.”
He questioned why, as she has testified, she would have suggested Trump, a relatively tall and heavyset man, try on a skimpy women’s lace bodysuit they found on a counter in the lingerie department. “It just struck me as very funny,” she said. “If a man tells me to put on some lingerie, my natural instinct is to tell him to go put on the lingerie.”
Tacopina asked how she could have fought back against Trump while wearing 4-inch-heels, as she has said. “I can dance backwards and forwards in 4-inch-heels,” she replied.
And, in perhaps the most heated moment of the day, Tacopina questioned why she wouldn’t have screamed if she were being sexually assaulted.
“I’m not a screamer. You can’t beat up on me for not screaming,” she replied, growing agitated. “I’m not beating up on you. I’m asking you questions,” Tacopina said.
“Women don’t come forward. One of the reasons they don’t come forward is because they’re always asked, why didn’t you scream?” Carroll told the courtroom. Women are told, she said, “You better have a good excuse if you didn’t scream.”
At that point, Carroll raised her voice. “I’m telling you: He raped me whether I screamed or not,” she exclaimed.
“Do you need a minute, Ms. Carroll?” Tacopina asked.
“No,” she replied. “Go right on. I don’t need an excuse for not screaming.”
The trial will not meet on Friday. Carroll is expected to continue her testimony on Monday.
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The advice columnist E Jean Carroll has denied that she falsely accused Donald Trump of raping her in order to sell books and for political ends.
On the third day of Carroll’s civil suit against the former president for battery and defamation, Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, put it to her that she made her allegation the centrepiece of a book proposal she was trying to sell.
Carroll is seeking damages for the alleged rape in a New York department store changing room in the mid-1990s and for defamation after Trump accused her of lying when she went public with her accusations in the book.
Carroll, who spent most of the day under cross-examination, said she was motivated to speak up after the New York Times’ exposure of Harvey Weinstein’s crimes prompted women across the US to relate their own experiences of sexual assault and fired the #MeToo movement.
But she did acknowledge that she decided to sue Trump for defamation following a conversation at a party with George Conway, then the husband of one of Trump’s top White House aides, Kellyanne Conway, but also a prominent Trump critic.
“George Conway does not like Donald Trump,” said Carroll, without elaboration.
Asked why she did not speak up when Trump was running for president in 2016, Carroll said it did not occur to her.
“I was never going to talk about what Donald Trump did,” she said. “Never.”
Tacopina sought to discredit Carroll’s account by dwelling on why she didn’t scream during the alleged attack, and why she admits laughing about it immediately afterwards.
Carroll stuck by her account that she went into the dressing room with Trump because she thought she was playing out a joke by telling him to put on the lingerie that he had been urging her to wear.
“If a man tells me to try on some lingerie, I tell him to go try it on,” she said. “I had no concept of how this would turn out. I thought this funny conversation would continue.”
Carroll said that when Trump suddenly attacked her in the changing room, she instinctively laughed.
“Laughter is a very good weapon to calm a man down if he has any erotic intention,” she said.
Tacopina then pressed Carroll repeatedly about why she didn’t scream.
“I was in too much of a panic to scream,” she responded. “You can’t beat up on me for not screaming.”
Carroll said that women who report rape are frequently asked why they didn’t scream, which was one of the reasons they do not go to the police.
Tacopina continued to press the issue, including what he said were differing accounts Carroll had given over the years for not screaming including that she “isn’t a screamer”, that she didn’t want to make a scene and that she was too full of adrenaline.
Carroll said all of those things could have been at play, and in any case it did not matter.
“I’m telling you he raped me whether I screamed or not,” she said, her voice breaking.
Tacopina also confronted Carroll over the fact she did not call police and instead called a friend, Lisa Birnbach.
Trump’s lawyer pressed Carroll about why, by her own account, she was laughing as she spoke to Birnbach. Carroll said that she was looking for reassurance that what she had just gone through was not as bad as she feared.
As Carroll began describing the assault, Birnbach told her to stop laughing.
“If Lisa had laughed I would have felt so much better. I was disoriented,” she said.
Instead, Birnbach told Carroll: “He raped you.”
“Those are the words that brought the reality to the forefront of my mind,” said Carroll.
Later, another friend told her not to go to the police because Trump was too powerful to take on.
“That’s the advice I wanted so that’s the advice I followed,” said Carroll.
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She said it was not odd to avoid going to the police. “Many women do not go to the police. I understand why,” she said.
Tacopina put it to Carroll that her view of Trump was of a “brutal, dangerous man”.
“Yes, he is,” she replied without hesitation.
E Jean Carroll, right, leaves federal court with her lawyer Roberta Kaplan on Thursday. Photograph: Bebeto Matthews/AP
Tacopina also confronted Carroll with a part of the draft of her book written a couple of years into his presidency that was not included in the final version, but which appeared to indicate a political motive for her going public with her accusations.
“But now after two years of watching the man in action, I became persuaded that he wants to kill me. He’s poisoning my water. He’s polluting my air. And as he stacks the courts, my rights over my body are being taken away state by state. So, now I will tell you what happened,” she wrote.
Tacopina also focused on an email sent by Carol Martin, a key witness in the trial who Carroll said she told about the alleged rape shortly after the attack.
In September 2017, Martin sent an email critical of Trump: “This has to stop. As soon as we’re both well enuf [sic] to scheme, we must do our patriotic duty again.”
Carroll replied: “TOTALLY!!! I have something special for you when we meet.”
Asked what that something special was, Carroll said she had no idea but added that the two women often bought “funny gifts” for each other.
Tacopina put it to Carroll that she started the book only two weeks after the email exchange. Carroll said that was not true.
Tacopina also latched on to a chapter in Carroll’s book – entitled What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal – in which the author advocates for all men to be shipped to Montana “for retraining”.
Trump’s lawyer appeared to be suggesting this was evidence of an anti-male bent when the judge, Lewis Kaplan, waded in to tell him it was satire modeled on A Modest Proposal, the renowned Jonathan Swift satirical essay from 1729 which suggested that impoverished Irish people should sell their children as food to the rich.
“Move on,” said the judge.
Trump is not expected to testify. But he has claimed the encounter never happened, that he does not know Carroll and she is not his “type”. On Wednesday, he called the case “a made-up scam” and Carroll’s lawyer a political operative, an outburst that drew a warning.
Carroll told the court about online abuse she received after accusing Trump and again when he posted messages on social media denying the accusations and accusing her of being a liar.
The jury was shown some of the messages, which included misogynistic epithets and other personal attacks.
Asked if she regretted the lawsuit, Carroll said: “About five times a day. It doesn’t feel pleasant to be under threat.”
The trial resumes on Monday with Tacopina continuing his cross-examination of Carroll.
The Associated Press contributed reporting
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Carroll will be cross-examined by Trump’s attorneys. It wasn’t clear Wednesday afternoon when that questioning would begin.
In much of her initial testimony, Carroll, 79, was matter-of-fact, but when one of her lawyers, Mike Ferrara, asked her about the moment Trump allegedly inserted his penis into Carroll, she stammered, took a lengthy pause and began to cry. “I….I…I tried. I…,” she said, before pausing. “When you asked me what I did in that moment, I always think back to why I walked in there to get myself in that situation,” she said, crying. “But I did get out.”
Carroll, a longtime advice columnist for Elle magazine, testified that she and Trump had met years before the alleged incident, and she liked him. “I thought he was well-known, a raconteur, man-about-town,” she said. “Well-liked.” Asked if she thought he was attractive, she said yes.
According to Carroll, she bumped into Trump at the door to Bergdorf’s, and he asked her to help him pick out a gift. “Oh, I was delighted,” she recalled. “Well, it was such a funny New York scene. I’m a born advice columnist. I love to give advice, and here was Donald Trump asking me to give advice about buying a present.”
Carroll has said she does not remember the exact date but believes it was in late 1995 or early 1996. A lawyer for Trump tried to use the lack of a date to undermine her account in his opening statement on Tuesday.
But in her testimony Wednesday, Carroll provided a detailed account of what she says happened that day. She and Trump browsed the store, she said, and eventually made their way up the escalator to the lingerie department on the sixth floor. The tone of their conversation was “very joshing” and light-hearted, Carroll testified, and the two teased each other about which one should try on a lace bodysuit. “I was flirting the whole time, probably,” she said.
Trump took her by the arm and led her to a dressing room, she said. Asked if she ever thought about saying no, she replied that “it didn’t occur to me.”
“The door was open and that open door has plagued me for years, because I just walked into it. Just walked in,” she said, as though in disbelief.
Carroll said it took her a moment to register that their cheerful encounter had taken a turn.
“He immediately shut the door and shoved me up against the wall,” she testified. “And shoved me so hard my head banged. I was extremely confused and suddenly realizing that what I thought was happening was not happening.”
She testified that she didn’t call for help or yell. “This is going to sound odd: I didn’t want to make a scene,” she said. “I didn’t want to make him angry at me. This started out as something fun and light and comedic and something to tell people you were having dinner with, and it suddenly turned absolutely dark.”
At the time, Carroll said, she was 5’9” and about 120 pounds and was wearing 4-inch heels, making her approximately Trump’s height but about 100 pounds lighter. “His head was beside mine, breathing,” she said.
“His whole weight came against my chest and held me up there. And he leaned down and pulled down my tights,” she said. “I was pushing him back,” she said, holding up her hands to demonstrate.
Carroll said she was “stamping and trying to wriggle out from under him.”
“But he had pulled down my tights and his fingers went into my vagina and it was extremely painful,” she said. “Extremely painful, because he put his hand inside me and curved his fingers. As I’m sitting here today I can still feel it,” she said, her voice cracking.
“Then what happened?” her lawyer, Ferrara, asked. “Then he inserted his penis,” she said, and the alleged assault lasted a few minutes. “I had so much adrenaline pouring through me at this time, I can’t recall if I said anything.”
After pushing Trump off of her, she said, Carroll fled the store and ran out onto Fifth Avenue.
“Sitting here today, how do you feel about going into that dressing room?” Ferrara asked.
“It was very stupid,” Carroll said. “It changed…” she paused. “I know people have been through a lot worse than this, but it had…it left me, it left me unable to ever have a romantic life again.”
Carroll said she immediately called one friend, Lisa Birnbach, and the next day told another friend, Carol Martin. She said she never told anyone else until she went public with her account in 2019.
Asked if she was afraid of how others would react, she said she wasn’t. “No, I knew how others would react,” she said. “Women who are raped are looked at as soiled goods. They’re looked at as less.”
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Patna: A 10-year-old girl was raped in Bihar’s Purnea district on Sunday, and the accused also put clay and sand in the victim’s genitals later, police said.
The incident occurred in a village under Dagarua police station in the district.
The victim was playing with her friends outside the house. The accused came to the place and told the other girls to go back to their respective homes.
As the other girls left, the accused took the 10-year-old girl to a deserted place and raped her. He also put clay and sand on her genital parts as she was profusely bleeding.
When the victim’s mother did not find her in the house, she enquired from other children, and told her that a person had taken her away.
A large number of villagers reached the spot and rescued the victim. The accused, after seeing the villagers, fled.
The local villager immediately informed the local police station about the incident. The accused was finally nabbed by the police.
“We have arrested the accused and booked him under the POCSO Act. We have also sent the victim for treatment followed by her medical examination. Speedy trial will be initiated against the accused,” Superintendent of Police, Purnea, Aamir Jawaid, said.
Jaipur: A Dalit woman was allegedly raped and set ablaze in Rajasthan’s Barmer district, police said on Friday.
The victim, who suffered 40 per cent burn injuries, is undergoing treatment at a government hospital in Jodhpur, they said.
Pachpadra police station SHO Rajendra Singh said the alleged incident occurred on Thursday. The accused, identified as Shakoor, allegedly raped the woman and then poured some chemical on her before setting her on fire.
The accused, who lives near the victim’s house, has been arrested, Singh said.
A case has been registered under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, the police added.
Bhadohi: A man has been booked for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl earlier this month holding her captive for three days, police said on Thursday.
“We have received a complaint of from family members of a 14-year-old girl who was allegedly kept forcibly at a place for three days and raped by one Rishi Seth.
The incident occurred earlier this month,” Kotwali Police Station SHO Ajay Kumar Seth said.
Seth was booked under several sections of the IPC and POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act on Wednesday.
“The victim was taken for a medical examination and we have formed a team to arrest the accused,” said the SHO.
Dhanbad: A 70-year-old visually impaired woman was allegedly raped by her former landlord in Jharkhand’s Dhanbad district, police said on Thursday.
The alleged incident took place in a colony in Sudamdih area, around 170 km from state capital Ranchi, when the survivor was alone in her house on Monday.
She and her relatives lodged a police complaint against her 55-year-old former landlord on Wednesday, an officer said.
Sudamdih Police Station officer-in-charge Pradip Rana said the accused was absconding after the incident.
“The police are investigating the case. The survivor and her relatives have been questioned. A manhunt has been launched to nab the accused,” he said.
Her son told the police that they were living in a rented house of the accused before moving to Sudamdih area a few months ago.
Gurugram: A 34-year-old woman from Assam was allegedly raped by a “friend” in a car near Hero Honda chowk here, police said on Thursday.
According to the woman, a private firm employee, she was in touch with the accused, Sandeep, for the past few days and had been talking to him on the phone.
On Monday, when she left her Sector 37 office, Sandeep, 40, offered to pick her up from Hero Honda chowk, police said.
“I sat in his car and after talking for some time, he raped me in the car and also threatened to kill me,” the woman said in her complaint, according to police.
Following her complaint, Sandeep, a resident of Jhajjar, was booked under sections 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC at Sector 37 Police Station on Wednesday and arrested on Thursday.
“The accused confessed to the crime. He was produced in a city court today and sent into judicial custody,” said Inspector Sunita, SHO, Sector 37 Police Station.
Gurugram: A 14-year-old girl was abducted from her school in Gurugram’s Sohna area and gang-raped by three youths, police said on Sunday.
According to the complaint filed by the victim’s father, his daughter, a Class 8 student, was abducted from her school during a sports programme on December 18 last year by three youths, who took her to a hilly area and took turns to rape her. They also threatened to kill her if she disclosed the incident to anyone.
The three accused also made an objectionable video of the girl and uploaded it on social media recently.
The victim’s father told the police that the girl did not reveal the incident to anyone till now, but on Saturday, he came to know about the video and later she disclosed the incident and he reported the matter to the police.
The police said two of the accused are students of another school studying in Class 11 and Class 12 and the third is a dropout.
“Police are conducting raids to arrest the accused and a medical examination of the girl has been done. The accused have been identified and will be arrested soon,” said DCP, South, Upasana Singh.
Following the complaint, an FIR was registered against three accused under various sections of the IPC and the POCSO Act at Sohna Sadar Police Station.
