Police arrest Indian man accused of raping, torturing 5-year-old, sparking heated protests about sexual violence in the country.The young girl, who is conscious and in stable condition, has injuries so severe that she may need corrective surgery. A temporary worker in garment factories is accused of keeping her in captivity for 40 hours while he sexually assaulted her.
Hundreds of angry protesters gathered outside the headquarters of Delhi police on Saturday after a five year-old girl was allegedly raped and tortured, reviving memories of a brutal December assault on a woman that shook the country.
Protests that began on Friday grew more intense after video footage showed a policeman slapping a woman protester, and following reports investigators offered the victim's family 2,000 rupees not to file a case.
The girl was "conscious and alert" and her condition stable, but her injuries are infected and so severe she may need corrective surgery, an official of the state-run All India Institute of Medical Sciences hospital told reporters.
Police identified the accused as a 22-year-old called Manoj, arrested late on Friday in Bihar where he had fled after leaving the girl for dead in an apartment in the same Delhi building the family lives in.
The girl, whose parents work as laborers and live in a slum in the outskirts of Delhi, went missing from home on April 15, according to Manish Sisodia, an official of the Aam Aadmi Party which organized a protest on Friday.
Local media said she was found by neighbors who heard her crying two days later.
B.N. Bansal, a doctor from the Swami Dayanand Hospital, where the girl was initially admitted for treatment, said on Friday that the young victim had undergone an operation after she was brought in with extreme injuries.
This so sad & pathetic!what's going on in India? A 5yrs old,someone's little baby!crime!crime!
ReplyDeleteSo much evil in this world. Why can't these men leave little girls alone,when young women are giving it freely?!
ReplyDeleteHer parent's nko?
ReplyDeleteThis world no longer makes sense.Lord have mercy on us!
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