Barely two weeks after a five-year-old girl was
assaulted, raped and locked up in a room in Delhi, another six-year old girl
has been found in a public toilet raped and left with a slit throat in
Badarpur, southeast of Delhi on Saturday.
According to family members, the girl usually takes
her bath at the public toilet, until they were informed that she was left for
dead with injuries on her neck.
When she was found, she was lying on the
ground; her body was covered in injuries, her throat slit and she was naked.
She has been rushed to the All India Institute
of Medical Sciences trauma centre, where a surgery was carried out on her. She is
in stable condition, according to the police.
According to a police officer’s account of the incident,
their control room received a distress call in the afternoon by a man who
reportedly found the girl almost naked and crying.
When they got to the scene, the girl was
holding her hand to her neck crying. She was bleeding, with a slashed neck and
private parts, which suggests that the offender(s) attempted to kill her.
Commissioner of police Ajay Chaudhary said, “”we
have rounded 22 suspects. They are alcoholics and drug addicts, who have some
past criminal records. All of them are being questioned. Soon, we will identify
the culprit and he will be arrested.”
Only last December, there was a brutal gang
rape of a young woman in New Delhi, which brought about a mass criticism of the
government’s attitude to the protection of women an d children.
The incident forced the government to introduce new laws to go harder on sex offenders and hold the police responsible for future occurrences.
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