A fourteen-year-old school girl who was raped, bludgeoned and buried alive miraculously survived her ordeal after her parents heard her desperate cries for help in India.
The girl was
allegedly attacked close to her home by a 35-year-old neighbour after she went
out to switch off a farm motor.
According to
SUN, the teen was raped, before being thrown into a ravine and buried alive
with stones and bushes.
Police say
the attacker saw the schoolgirl alone as she ran errand in her village in the
Betul district of India’s Madhya Pradesh region at around 5pm on Monday, say
officers.
He then
launched the nightmare ordeal on his young victim, said Betul Superintendent of
Police Simala Prasad.
The family
searched in the darkness, until they heard “cries” and whimpering coming from a
ravine close to their farm.
“She had gone
out at around 5pm, and when she did not return after a few hours, her family
began searching for her,” said Mahendra Chouhan, officer-in-charge at nearby
Sarni police station.
“They heard
some cries near a nullah – or ravine – close to their farm. In torchlight, they
followed the cries and found the survivor.”
The report
said the family managed to free the girl from the pit and rushed her to a
nearby medical centre, before she was referred to Nagpur Medical College,
around 120 miles from her village, because of the severity of her condition.
She was
“semi-conscious” when she was first taken to doctors, added officer Chouhan,
and told cops she knew the rapist.
“One team
took the survivor to hospital and another team was dispatched to arrest the
accused,” he added.
“He was
caught within hours and her condition is stable.”
The alleged
rapist has been arrested and booked for rape, as well as charged under the
Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and the Protection
of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said.
The alleged
rape is the latest in a series of brutal attacks on young girls from India’s
Dalit community
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