Rape survivors in Nepal may win court cases but fail to win society’s trust

After the belly of a 13-year-old girl from Rolpa, western Nepal, started getting bigger abnormally, teachers at her school were surprised. One day, she felt dizzy and fainted in the school’s playground and was rushed to a hospital. Later, it was found that she was in the last month of pregnancy.

Being asked about the pregnancy, she told a horrific incident of being raped by her uncle. After a few days, she gave birth to a child. It was months later that her family filed a rape complaint against the uncle, in 2020.