Indian police report that a 10-year-old girl was raped after a village chief ordered for her to be sexually assaulted as “punishment” after her father beat a man who broke into their house.

According to reports, a 25-year-old man who was neighbors with the family broke into their house drunk and tried to molest the man’s wife.

The father attacked the intruder but, the next day, the bruised and beaten neighbor told village elders that he was assaulted without provocation.

In their infinite morality, the elders in Eastern India’s Bokaro district ordered that he can rape the man’s 10-year-old daughter as “revenge.”

The Times of India reports that the elders decided the girl’s “violent father had to be punished.”

According to the Times, the 25-year-old dragged the girl into a wooden area near her home and raped her against the pleas of her mother.

The attack reportedly lasted close to an hour and the girl was left lying in blood.

According to reports, other villagers were too afraid to intervene for fear of revenge from the elders.

Of course, there have been reports all year on India’s obscene rape epidemic that largely targets young girls living in rural areas.

Earlier this year, two girls, aged 12 and 14, were found hanging from a tree after being brutally gang raped.

Just days after another woman in the same region came forward to claim that she was gang raped by four police officers.

In another case, a girl was badly beaten and gang raped before her assailants threw acid in her face to hide her identity.

According to the National Crime Records Bureau, 24,923 rapes were reported in the country last year and women’s groups believe the figure is much higher because the majority of rapes are not reported.

I think teenage girls should be protected against such brutality.God help our girls