UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA - AUGUST 1: 9 year old Gitanjali (name changed) sleeps in her bed on August 1, 2016 in Uttar Pradesh, India. Her 30 year old father sexually abused her for years and raped her last year. He threatened to beat her and her mother with metal rods if she told anyone. When her grandfather found out, he went to the police and had him arrested. Since then, the whole family and whole village has been pressuring him to drop the case. He says "Everyone in the village is against me. They say that he's my only son and ask who will look after me and my family? They don't understand that what he did is very wrong. They don't think that it's true. Even my wife and Gitanjali's mother want me to drop the case. I don't know how much longer I can go on, but I know who he is, I know he will never change. If I drop the case it will give him the strength to do this again." Their neighbors and people in the village tease and taunt Gitanjali and ask "what will happen to your future?", "who will marry you now?" and "what will happen to your mother?". They tell her to stop lying. Gitanjali's mother says that even though her husband often beat her, she wants him to get out of jail and come home. "If he gets out he will promise to stop abusing Gitanjali. It's her fault as well. When she would be sick she would stay in bed, she would run around and act childish and my husband would watch her. I told her to stay away from him. She should have shouted when he locked the door. She didn't share anything with me." She says that her husband would often make her sleep on the floor while he slept in the bed with Gitanjali. Gitanjali says that she feels sad that her father is in jail. She says that when he's around that financially things are better, that he looks after the family and is able to buy them things. She says that everyday her mother calls her a prostitute and blames her for her father being gone. (Photo by Getty Images)