The 18-month-old girl had gone to play with her neighbours’ two children aged two and four on Wednesday when she was allegedly raped by their father in their one-room home, police said.
A man accused of raping a
toddler in front of his own children has been arrested in India, police said
Friday, the latest in a series of sex attacks against minors in the country.
The girl, who is recovering
at a New Delhi hospital, was found dumped outside her house bleeding and in
pain by her mother after the alleged assault.
The suspect was arrested on
Thursday, said Harinder Singh, an officer in the Aman Vihar neighbourhood where
the assault apparently took place.
He has been charged under
India’s Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, which means he could
face life imprisonment.
The head of the Delhi
Commission for Women Swati Maliwal met the child and said she was in a stable
condition after undergoing surgery.
“The poor child cannot even
speak, she is just laying there,” Maliwal said.
The attack adds to a grim
record of sexual assaults on women and children in India.
Nearly 11,000 cases of
child rape were reported in 2015, according to the National Crime Records
Bureau’s latest figures.
About three children are
raped every day in Delhi alone, it said.
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.
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