Impoverished family seeks justice after 12-year-old daughter raped and impregnated by relative

Legal and medical barriers prevent abortion as the victim, who is still unaware of her pregnancy, has already reached 30 weeks.

An impoverished family from Chaurpati Rural Municipality in Achham, a hill district of Sudurpaschim Province, is in dire straits as its 12-year-old daughter was allegedly raped repeatedly and impregnated while living in India for work.