DCW chief Swati Maliwal on Saturday said she has been a victim of sexual assault at the hand of her father when she was a child. Speaking at the Women's Day award function alongside CM Arvind Kejriwal, Swati Maliwal said the event made her emotional as the struggle stories of the women awardees reminded her of her own struggle -- how she was 'sexually assaulted' by her father. "My father used to beat me up a lot. I used to hide under the bed when he came home, I was so scared. At that time, I used to think the whole night about how to empower women against such atrocities. He used to hold my hair and hit my head hard against the wall. But I believe that ignited the determination in me to work for the welfare of the women," Swati Maliwal said adding that she stayed with his father till class four.
Maliwal's comments come after Khusbhu Sundar's conversation at We the Women where she first spoke of being sexually abused by her father
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