An eight-month-old baby girl is in a critical condition in hospital after being raped in her home in India.
The infant, who was being looked after by her 28-year-old cousin at the time, suffered what has been described as “horrific” injuries in the attack that required hours long surgery, the
BBC reports.
The child’s cousin has since been arrested for her rape.
The sexual assault happened over the weekend while the baby girl’s mother was at work and has sparked nation-wide anguish across India.
“Her heart-rending cries could be heard in the intensive-care unit of the hospital. She has horrific injuries in her internal organs,” Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal tweeted after visiting the child in hospital.
“What to do? How can Delhi sleep today when 8-month baby has been brutally raped in capital? Have we become so insensitive or we have simply accepted this as our fate?”
According to the latest data from India’s Crime Records Bureau, there has been an 82 percent rise in child rape across the country in the 12 months from 2016 to 2015, the
BBC reports.
In 2016 there were 19,765 cases or reported rape against children, up from 10,854 in 2015.
In 2016, a 36-year-old construction worker was accused of raping an 11-month-old baby girl over a two-hour period. He had abducted the child while she was sleeping next to her mother.
Demonstrators hold banners and light candles during a vigil in Anantnag, Kashmir on January 15, 2018. (AAP)
In late 2015, a 50-year-old man was jailed for life for the rape of a three-month-old baby girl.
Six years ago in, 2012, India made global headlines for the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old female student on a bus in Delhi.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/2018/01/31/06/55/eight-month-old-baby-girl-raped-by-cousin-in-india
This is a new low for a disgusting country this baby was just 8 months old? TH8s is making headlines around the world.
India is a corrupt, disgusting country they just pay lip service and yet we have Indians on here saying how great India is.