14-Year-Old Beaten to Death for Adultery Was Raped

The family of a 14-year-old girl who was beaten to death in Bangladesh says she didn’t commit adultery—she was raped. Hena Akhter’s family talked to CNN this week, and offered a heartbreaking story of the girl’s death. In their telling, Akhter’s much older cousin, Mahbub Khan, had repeatedly harassed…

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14-Year-Old Beaten to Death for Adultery Was Raped

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