Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Woman 'locked away for 25 years'

Probably one of the saddest things i've heard in a while:

Woman 'locked away for 25 years'
By Sandeep Sahu
BBC News, Bhubaneswar

Annapurna Sahu is recovering in hospital. A 43-year-old Indian woman has been rescued after officials said she had been locked up by her family in a single room for more than 25 years.

5 comments:

Jas N Smith said...

Jesus man, did you see that a family in Ohio locked 8 of their kids in cages?! What is wrong with people?!

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Anonymous said...

That is the sad site of such countries like India.

Becoming the world source for IT-Talent ( at least that is what I heard) and on the other hand about 50% of Indians can't read or write, no social system etc..

Sometimes they burn the widows if their husband died , because usually the wife leaves their family if she gets married and moves to the husbands family.

With burning them I do not mean to execute them but manipulating the stove.

Anonymous said...

people do strange things. i watched a discovery channel special on feral children and how they become that way. really sad.

i can see dr. geekos point, they are just at a developmental phase the the u.s. passed a long time ago. yes, it seems vile to us, but to the system they have in place, it may be more normal than we realize.

Jas N Smith said...

um, what? normal? what the hell system could make locking a chick in an outhouse for 25 years normal? And as far as that burning shit...I don't even want to go there.