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Girl (7) critical after being raped with water pipe in India

A seven-year-old girl is in a critical condition in India after being raped with a water pipe. Th...
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15.26 20 Sep 2018


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Girl (7) critical after being raped with water pipe in India

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15.26 20 Sep 2018


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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.

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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."

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.


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