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29 March 2024

Crazy World: Victim 'happily married' to rapist

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Rape victim 'happily' married to accused

INDIA: In a bizarre case, a rape victim told the Indian court in Mumbai that she was happily married to the accused when he was booked by police for the crime.

In fact, the 'victim' is ready to continue living with her husband even as she fears that her family might seriously harm her for her deicison, reports Press trust of India.

The girl's parents had filed a complaint of sexual assault on Sadam HUssain in Mumbai earlier this month. However, when the trial started, the woman told the court that her parents had granted her permission to marry the man in November, but they did not want her to keep in touch with her family.

About a month after the couple got married, the girl's father filed the complaint with police authorities.

Pet dog chews face of girl, 4

UK: An Alaskan malamute called Luna attacked a girl aged four and left her with horrific injuries.

The 15-month-dog clamped its jaws around the little girl's head and chewed her face, reports The Sun.

The little girl named Jorja was sitting next to the dog when the beast suddenly dragged her on the ground and attacked her face. The mother was worried that her daughter might get killed. The floor was covered in blood.

Jorja required 20 stitches after the attack. She also needed specialist eye treatment, said the daily.

The  was not put down but has been sent to live with another family.

Boy, 3, accidentally shoots friend, 5

COLORADO: Despite the presence of an adult in the room, a 3-year-old boy managed to shoot his five-year-old friend in a tragic incident.

The adult person has been arrested by the police and has been charged with child abuse resulting in death and criminal negligence, reports Daily Mail.

A neighbour told the local ABC affiliate that he just heard a loud boom and seconds later heard one of the parents go "Oh my God"!

It is still not clear who the gun belonged to or how it came into the hands of a toddler. However, police authorities have said that they consider the death an accident, but that does not affect the adult's charges.

Neighbours informed the daily that the little boy was covered in his own blood from head to toe when he was carried away from the apartment. The family is left devastated in the holiday season as Christmas decorations continue to glitter in the apartment.

Human 'polar bears' take icy Christmas plunge

US: As most Americans celebrated Christmas Day with warm feasts and crackling fires, members of the country's oldest Polar Bear Club cast off their sweaters for an icy plunge into the Atlantic.

A few dozen men and women of all ages took part in a special Christmas edition of the monthly tradition, gathering on a windy beach at Coney Island on a 40 degrees Fahrenheit (five degrees Celsius) winter's day.

A guitar-playing Santa Claus added some holiday cheer to the ritual, which saw club members wade into the freezing water at a seaside promenade in front of the New York Aquarium, in a tradition dating back more than a century.

Onlookers in hats and gloves watched and took cell phone pictures of the spectacle, as the bathers stripped down to their swimsuits and plunged into the frigid waters, the novices shrieking in painful celebration.

"It was pretty crazy," said Alex Birman, an 18-year-old student from Virginia.

"I liked it, it was fun. It was my first time. My uncle is a member of the Polar Bear Club, so I decided to join him."

Veterans were more nonchalant. Curtrell Gore, 60, has been taking the icy dips since 1994 and became a full member in 2000.

"Today is not very cold day, 25, 30 degrees -- I cannot resist the beach. With 17 degrees I can resist the beach, but today it was OK," he said.

The Coney Island Polar Bear Club was founded in 1903 by fitness pioneer Bernarr MacFadden, who believed that a dip in frozen water "can be a boon to one's stamina, virility and immunity," according to the group's website.

The idea has since spread across the United States and Canada, with similar chapters taking regular frigid swims in the ocean and other bodies of water, often using the events to raise money for charity.

Members have been known to break ice on frozen lakes or wade through the snow in order to reach the water. The Coney Island group says it is not aware of anyone having suffered from hypothermia or frostbite in the last 20 years.

Organizers expect a much larger crowd of some 300 people to attend the New Year's Day plunge at Coney Island a week from now. The group holds similar swims on the first Sunday of every month from November through April.

Twin sisters give birth to sons 13 minutes apart

US: In a rare occurrence, a pair of fraternal twin sisters gave birth to sons 13 minutes apart in Voorhees, N.J., recently.

"It just has something to do with twin communication," one of the sisters told the Courier Post from the hospital.

While the twins were expecting at the same time, their due dates were apart by a month. However, when one of the sisters went into labour, the other sibling also felt the pain and within the next few hours the other sister's water broke two weeks early.

"We've always had that twin intuition growing up, for some reason," said the twin.