Guwahati: Around 150 hearing-impaired youths, under the banner of the Assam Association of the Deaf, staged a protest on Saturday against the sexual assault on an 11-year-old hearing-impaired girl of Chennai for seven months.
The protest was organised at Lakshidhar Bora Khetra here from 11am to 1.30pm.
The protesters displayed placards carrying the slogan "no more rape, save girls, save nation".
The organisation's general secretary Tapan Kumar Sarma said, "Everyone, deaf or otherwise, should condemn this barbaric incident. Such an incident happened in an institution in Lankeswar here and the girl was forced to commit suicide. She was sexually abused for seven months since January.
Twenty-three persons have been arrested since the matter came to light on July 22. We demand strict punishment of the guilty.
"The deaf and mute people are easy prey to the criminal-minded as they cannot communicate with the rest of society. Not everyone knows sign language. Society should protect these vulnerable people. We appeal to the government to provide adequate protection to disabled girls," he added.
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