4-Year-Old Indian Girl Raped, Left With Severe Brain Injuries In Critical Condition

By Cavan Sieczkowski
Posted: 04/23/2013 1:52 pm EDT  |  Updated: 04/23/2013 2:18 pm EDT




A 4-year-old Indian rape victim was left with severe brain injuries after allegedly being suffocated. Here, Indian schoolgirls hold a placard and participate in a silent rally against the rape of a 5-year-old girl in New Delhi, in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)

A 4-year-old Indian girl who was raped last week is currently in critical condition, having sustained severe brain injuries after allegedly being suffocated.

The unnamed child was reportedly raped in her village in Madhya Pradesh on April 17, according to Press Trust of India.

The girl's family found the child, who went missing on Wednesday, the next morning lying unconscious and profusely bleeding near a crematorium in her village, according to The Times of India. She had lacerations, tears and bruises on her body, and had allegedly been suffocated, which caused serious brain injuries.

Firoz Khan, a 35-year-old welder, is accused of raping the 4-year-old. His alleged accomplice is accused of using chocolate to lure the girl from her home, NDTV reports.

“The condition of the 4-year-old child, who was found unconscious in a field in Ghansur town of MP, is still critical. She is totally unconscious from the time she was brought to Nagpur," a doctor told The Hindu. "We have done all the examinations including MRI brain and EEG which indicates gross damage to her brain. Her brain’s functioning has reduced to an abnormal level. This is hypoxic brain damage which means inability of brain to work due lack of oxygen supply."

“She has been put on a life support system and is being treated by a team of senior doctors. Nothing else can be said about her situation now" he added.

Police are still searching for Khan, who may have left the country, according to NDTV. The other suspect has been arrested.

News of this horrific incident comes in the midst of fury over the rape and torture of a 5-year-old girl in the Indian capital . The girl was found Wednesday in a New Delhi apartment building and doctors discovered a candle and a bottle of hair oil inside her little body.

Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in the wake of the crime, alleging that police did not respond to the tragedy.

"The police must be held accountable for their shocking levels of apathy. They urgently need to review police processes to ensure that all cases of rape and sexual violence – not just those highlighted by the media – are fully and promptly investigated," G. Ananthapadmanabhan, who heads the India chapter of the human rights group Amnesty International, said, according to the Associated Press. "Those who fail to do their job must be held accountable."

Two suspects -- aged 19 and 24 -- have been arrested in connection with the rape, according to the report.

     

Molested UP girl dies in Delhi hospital

IANS | Mar 16, 2013, 12.12 PM IST

Molested UP girl dies in Delhi hospital

LUCKNOW: A 15-year-old girl who had set herself on fire after being sexually harassed by a boy in Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad town died at a Delhi hospital Saturday, police said. 

The girl died at Safdarjung Hospital after infection spread to her vital organs owing to the burn injuries. 

Senior Superintendent of Police Neelabjo Chowdhary told IANS over telephone that a complaint was registered by the victim March 11 and three people were arrested the next day. 

Chowdhary said now an additional charge of abetment to suicide would be slapped against the accused. 

The girl had accused a neighbour, Danish, of harassing her. But pressure was mounted on her family to withdraw the complaint. 

Taken aback by the developments and hurt by the pressure on her family, the frustrated girl doused herself with kerosene and set herself on fire in Moradabad, some 160 km from New Delhi, police said.

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Molested-UP-girl-dies-in-Delhi-hospital/articleshow/19002318.cms

Innocence lost: College student rapes 5-year-old in south Delhi

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A five-year-old girl was raped by her neighbour, a hotel management student, in Kapashera area of South-West Delhi on Friday. According to the police, the accused identified as Lalit (20) lives with his family near the victim’s house. He is studying at a prominent college in the Capital. The girl was playing outside her house in the afternoon when the accused allegedly spotted her and took her to a nearby empty plot on pretext of playing together. He allegedly raped her there. “He even threatened her of dire consequences if she reported the matter to anyone. Initially, the girl did not report the matter to her family. But when she could not bear the pain, she narrated her ordeal to her parents who immediately informed the police,” an official said. The victim was rushed to the nearby Safdarjung Hospital where medical tests confirmed rape. A case was registered at Kapashera police station. The accused was subsequently arrested. Meanwhile, the victim’s family reported that they have been living in constant fear since they registered the case as Lalit’s family was allegedly putting pressure on them to quash the FIR. “Lalit belongs to an influential family. They are continuously threatening us to take back our complaint. some unidentified persons pelted stones at our house last night,” the victim’s grandfather said.  Source: http://m.indiatoday.in/story/five-year-old-girl-raped-by-a-college-student-in-south-delhi-kapashera-area/1/257321.html

17-year-old girl raped at gunpoint

ETAH: A 17-year-old girl was allegedly raped at gunpoint by two youths in Budpura village, police said today. 

The FIR filed by the minor girl's father states that in the incident which occurred on March 2, two village youths, Subedar and Nandoo, forcibly dragged his daughter to a secluded spot where they took turns to rape her after gagging her and holding her at gunpoint. The duo are absconding. 

Police said that the victim was found in an unconscious state close to where she was raped. 

In another incident which has come to light in the area involves a young girl who was allegedly kidnapped six years ago from Sahawar area and held captive in Ballabhgarh area of the district where the accused, one Chandravan, repeatedly raped her. 

The girl, who has given birth to a baby girl, however, managed to escape from her captor and returned to her parents. 

With the abductor allegedly looking to carry her off again, the parents of the girl lodged an FIR against him, police said, adding that no arrests had been made in the case so far. 

In a third case of attempted rape, reported in the district on March 4, a woman was attacked inside her house by a youth who, however, was forced to flee as the victim raised alarm seeking help. 

In a similar case, also on March 4, a 13-year-old student of class VIII was attacked inside her house by a youth who has been named in an FIR over the incident. 

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/17-year-old-girl-raped-at-gunpoint/articleshow/18832643.cms

India reeling after rape and murder of 3 young sisters

Altaf Qadri / AP

Protesters near the Indian parliament Thursday complain that a new sexual violence law is inadequate. Their signs call for the removal of the deputy chairman of the parliament's upper house, P.J. Kurien, who is facing rape allegations.

By Ashok Sharma, The Associated Press

NEW DELHI -- Police were searching villages in western India on Friday for suspects in the rape and killing of three young sisters, as Indians still angry over the fatal gang rape of a woman on a New Delhi bus in December face another heinous sexual attack.

The bodies of the sisters — ages 7, 9 and 11 — were found Feb. 16 in a village well in Bhandara district in Maharashtra after they had gone missing from school two days earlier, said police officer Abhinav Deshmukh. The area is more than 600 miles south of New Delhi, the capital.

The victims' mother said police did not take the case seriously and did nothing for several days until villagers held protests. Deshmukh said Friday that 10 teams of 30 investigators were working on the case and that he was confident they would find the killers soon. Police first dismissed the deaths as accidental, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. The girls' mother accused police of a shoddy investigation and said they did nothing for two days. Enraged villagers forced shops to close, burned tires and blocked a national highway passing in the area for hours earlier this week, demanding justice.

Police eventually registered a case of rape and murder after a post-mortem of the girls found that they had been sexually abused and brutally killed, PTI said. One police officer has been suspended for not acting promptly, Indian Heavy Industries Minister Praful Patel, who represents Bhandara district in Parliament, said Thursday. Cabinet Minister Manish Tewari called the killings a "very, very heinous assault" and said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was sending 1 million rupees ($18,300) to the girls' family.

The case has horrified Indians two months after they were outraged by the gang rape and killing of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus.

The gang rape sparked nationwide protests about India's treatment of women and spurred the government to hurry through a new package of laws to protect them.

The gang rape victim and her male friend, who also was badly beaten up in the attack, were dumped naked on the roadside, and the woman died from her injuries two weeks later in a Singapore hospital. Five men are being tried on rape and murder charges in that case, while a sixth, who is underage, is in juvenile court.

A new law enacted by the government has increased the prison sentences for rape from the existing seven to 10 years to a maximum of 20 years. It also provides for the death penalty in extreme cases of rape that result in death or leave the victim in a coma.

Source: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/22/17056657-india-reeling-after-rape-and-murder-of-3-young-sisters?lite