Five-Year-Old Rape Victim Dies from Injuries in India

The five-year-old victim of rape on April 18 has died from her injuries, according to an official from the district said.

According to Ravi Manadiar, an administrator at the hospital, she suffered a brain injury when her assailants tried to smother her as she struggled in tears. She fell into a coma two days after she was rushed to the hospital until her death on Monday night.

 

She suffered cardiac arrest and died on Monday night, after being rushed to the hospital about two weeks ago from a brutal rape attack by two men.

Two men have been arrested in connection to the attack.

Her mother was in shock, and couldn't hold back tears. She told AP, "The court should give them the strictest punishment ever. These men should be burned alive so that the whole world will see how such criminals ought to be punished." 

According to the official for Seoni district where the incident occurred, she was lured by one of the men to a farm, where she was brutally raped by the other assailant, who happened to be a friend of her parents. Her poor parents, who earned a living from construction workers, were at work at the time of the attack.

Only a few weeks earlier, a young girl about the same age was kidnapped, raped and tortured by her assailants who locked her up in a room after the callous act in New Delhi. She is presently recovering in the hospital.

The attacks on women and young girls in recent times have sparked a worldwide outrage over the inability of the government to treat women fairly in the country.

The first attack which involved the fatal gang rape of a young woman in a bus forced the government to impose harsher punishments for sex offenders and crimes against the women folk, including the dwath penalty.