An eight-month-old Indian girl was Tuesday recovering in
hospital after she was raped at her home in Delhi, the latest such case
in a country notorious for high levels of sexual violence.
The girl’s parents rushed her to hospital after discovering
her bed covered in blood when they returned from work on Sunday. She
later underwent a three-hour operation for her injuries.
The Press Trust of India said the girl’s 27-year-old cousin
had been arrested and charged under the Protection of Children from
Sexual Offences Act, meaning he could face a life sentence.
“The worst has happened,” tweeted Swati Maliwal, the head of
the Delhi Commission for Women, after visiting the girl in a hospital.
“An eight-month-old baby has been brutally raped in the Capital and is battling for her life in a hospital.”
A UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2014 said one
in three rape victims in India was a minor and expressed alarm over the
widespread sexual abuse of children.
Nearly 11,000 cases of child rape were reported in India in
2015, according to the National Crime Records Bureau’s latest figures.
It said three children were raped every day in Delhi alone.
The city, known as India’s rape capital, hit global headlines in 2012 for the fatal gang-rape of a young female student.
AFP
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