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Police in India found a 50-year-old American woman chained to a tree in a forest in the country's western Maharashtra state, where she claims her Indian husband left her to die. Maharashtra Police told CBS News the woman, identified as Lalita Kayi Kumar, was found in a forest in the Sindhudurg district of the state, about 280 miles south of India's financial capital Mumbai, on Saturday after local shepherds heard her cries for help and alerted authorities.

Photos and videos broadcast by Indian news outlets showed an emaciated-looking woman clad in ragged, loose clothing being assisted by rescuers in the middle of a forest, with one of her legs affixed to a tree with a metal chain.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A video broadcast by India's India Today TV channel showed medics surrounding Kumar on a hospital bed as she wrote a note to communicate her story. In it, she says she is unable to speak and alleges that her husband left her shackled in the jungle to die.

"Injection for extreme psychosis which caused a severely locked jaw and inability to drink any water. Need intravenous food. 40 days without food and water. Husband tied me to a tree in the forest and said I would die there," the note read.

Oh this poor woman. Her husband is an animal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

40 days without drinking water is impossible.

Much doubt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I feel like after a few days chained to a tree your sense of time might not be very reliable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I read it as she was unable to open her mouth to eat, drink, and speak and was on an iv BEFORE her husband took her to the forest and left her there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am cautious in believing this story, the general survival rule is that a person can go 3 days without water, and 3 weeks without food. She claims she went 40 days without food and water which would be significantly longer than any person would normally survive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I suspect the 40 days part was from the delerium

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Not sure why you're being downvoted, seeing some credibility info about the authors of an article is extremely helpful, especially when it's a foreign publication I don't know much about, like CBS News.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Because it’s a wall of text bot-spam from a self-appointed arbiter of truthfulness with questionable methodology.

And it’s spammed to every posting on some subs giving the disappointing appearance of actual human activity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

a woman was found chained up in a forest

Oh but have you thought about the political leaning of the author though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Because it’s not good?

It’s a site ran by one random man, it’s got a heavily biased opinion of bias, ridiculously Zionist and will discredit any news source critical of Israel, it’s often straight up wrong, and also the bot spams every post.

I don’t get why more people aren’t annoyed at it, but I guess they don’t know much about it yet.