Saturday, October 17, 2015

Outrage as Indian girls aged 2 and 5 gang-raped after being dragged from their homes

There has been outrage as girls aged five and two-and-a-half have reportedly been gang-raped in separate sickening attacks in Delhi in the past 24 hours.

The youngest victim was said to be watching television at home in the Nangloi area before she was abducted by two men on a motorbike. NDTV quotes the child's mother as saying,

"My girl was watching Ramleela when there was a power cut. That is when they kidnapped her.”

She was later found lying unconscious and bleeding profusely in a nearby park by neighbours.

The same day, a five-year-old girl was reportedly raped by three men in the Anand Vihar area after being taken from her home.

It is reported one of the accused, her neighbour, took her to his house and allegedly raped her along with his friends.

Police have apprehended three suspects in the case.

"Her clothes were partially torn with blood spots all over them. Some locals saw her and she told them she was se.xually assaulted," an officer from Anand Vihar police station said.

"Some of the locals then barged into the house and caught them (the alleged perpetrators) before handing them over to us

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