“This is what she is going to be wearing when going out, from now on,” he said.

The difference between the initial physical examination at the gynecological emergency ward and the one done by the OCC doctors was articulated by an eight-year-old survivor from Tantibazar to this correspondent recently.

The Daily Star spoke to her at the balcony of the Women and Children’s Repression Tribunal 1, where she was awaiting her turn in the courtroom.

“There were six people watching me in the ward on the second floor.My mother was not there. They asked me to take off my pants and then they took three sticks from a thin bottle and did something,” she described, each sentence punctuated by a long pause.

Remembering the ordeal was difficult for her -- she refused eye contact the entire time, clutched at her father, and fiddled around with the drawstring of her pants. When asked whether she was scared, she nodded and whispered a barely inaudible “yes”.

“The next day the doctor saw me again. This time it was in a room on the ground floor. Only one doctor. My mother was there.”

“Were you scared?”, she was asked again. “No,” she said, definitively, and vocally.

An adult in her early 20s, who was raped on October 16, 2018, was vocal in her criticism of the physical examination done at the emergency ward.