A seven-year-old girl is in a critical condition in India after being raped with a water pipe.
The attack happened on Wednesday in the Seemapuri area of northern New Delhi.
The child was taken to a park by a 22-year-old man, who inserted a water pipe inside her and raped her.
Reports say the girl underwent hours of surgery. The exact type of pipe used in the assault is unclear.
A man has reportedly been arrested in connection with the rape.
Swati Maliwal is chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women.
She said on Twitter: "Cannot describe the pain the little girl was experiencing.
"Already malnourished, she has a long struggle ahead.
"We are going to support her in her legal fight to ensure death penalty to her culprits.
"Will file compensation application & shall make all efforts to rehabilitate her."
Just met with 7 year old rape survivor who was brutally raped in Seemapuri yesterday by a 22 year old man. He took her to a park, inserted water pipe inside her private part & then raped her. Girl is v critical, has bled incessantly & was operated upon. Mom single parent, v poor!
— Swati Maliwal (@SwatiJaiHind) September 18, 2018
India has a long history of sexual violence against women and girls.
The issue was again thrown into the spotlight in 2012, when 23-year-old Jyoti Singh was raped by several men who also used an iron bar.
The following year, a six-year-old girl was raped in a public toilet in Delhi - just days after another brutal sexual assault of a five-year-old in the Indian capital.
Then in 2015 two young girls - aged two-and-a half and five - were gang raped in separate attacks.
While earlier this year, eight-year-old Asifa Bano was abducted while looking after her family's ponies in the forests of the Himalayan foothills.
Her body was found in a forest a week later.
Forensic reports say she had been drugged with anti-anxiety medication, repeatedly raped, burned, bludgeoned with a rock and strangled.
The death penalty has since been brought in for people convicted of child rape.
But Ms Maliwal added: "Despite my indefinite fast & law created for ensuring death penalty to rapists of children, it's yet to be implemented in Delhi."
She claimed the Delhi police force is lacking some 66,000 personal, and fast-track courts have yet to be created.
Statistics from 2016 show that over 338,000 crimes against women were registered in India - including over 110,000 cases of violence by husbands and relatives.