Nepal, Feb. 19 -- In one chilly winter in 2002, Victim A was on her way to her maternal uncle's house when a squad of the then Royal Nepal Army arrested her.

The army labelled her as a Maoist cadre. She was 14, a school student, and had no links with the Maoist insurgents.

The country was in a state of emergency when the security forces enjoyed free hands in arresting and torturing whoever they suspected was a Maoist.

She was kept in the army barracks for three and a half years. "I was raped countless times in the army barracks. I don't want to remember those days. They were the darkest of my days that completely ruined my life," she said.

The army sent her to police custody after knowing that she was pregnant.

She delivered a child ...