5 Year Old Rape Victim Responding to Treatment

Despite the continuous protests over the authorities failure to handle the case satisfactorily, it was good news for the family of the five year old rape victim as she is finally responding to treatment, according to the doctors handling her situation.

D.K. Sharma, medical superintendent of the state-run hospital in New Delhi where the girl was being treated, said that she was responding well to treatment and that her condition had stabilized. 

It will be recalled, that she was allegedly kidnapped, raped and tortured by a man and then left alone in a locked room in Delhi until she was found two days later by neighbors who heard her crying in a locked room in the same building where she lives with her family. The girl was alone when she was found, having been left to die by her assailant after the rape, according to the police.

It is being two days since hundreds of people protested outside police headquarters in the capital, enraged over allegations that police had ignored complaints by the girl's parents that she was missing. The protesters also demanded that the Delhi police chief be removed from office and that police officials accused of failing to act on the parents' complaint be dismissed.

Late Sunday, 100 students gathered at New Delhi's iconic India Gate monument and held a peaceful protest, despite police order. University students initially planned to hold a peaceful protest even after some restrictions have been placed at the main avenue.

At a meeting with civil servants, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in her words said, "the gruesome assault on the little girl a few days back reminds us once again of the need to work collectively to root out this sort of depravity from our society".

Even as protesters have demanded that the government to pass tough laws for crimes against women, Human Rights Watch's Ganguly has explained that, "enacting strong laws are simply a first step, but it needs the government to focus urgently on implementation if it is serious about protecting children and other victims of sexual abuse."