Infant fighting for he life after allegedly being raped by her 27-year-old cousin at her home in Delhi.
The girl was rushed to hospital on Sunday after her parents returned home from work to their home to find her bed covered in blood.
The parents would leave their daughter in the custody of their sister-in-law when they went to work. Since it was a Sunday, their sister-in-law’s son was at home.
Police said when the accused saw that his mother was not around, he allegedly forced himself on the baby.
He reportedly confessed to raping the baby under the influence of alcohol.
When the infant’s mother, who works as a maid, returned home at around 12.30pm, she saw bloodstains on her daughter’s clothes and informed her husband.
According to police. the baby was rushed to a hospital where it was found that she had been sexually assaulted.
Doctors had to operate for three hours to repair the damage caused to her internal ogans by the savage attack. The child is reported to be in a critical but stable condition.
The Press Trust of India said the girl’s cousin had been arrested and charged under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, meaning he could face a life sentence.
“The worst has happened,” tweeted Swati Maliwal, the head of the Delhi Commission for Women, after visiting the girl in hospital.
“An eight-month-old baby has been brutally raped in the Capital and is battling for her life in a hospital.”
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A UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2014 said one in three rape victims in India was a minor and expressed alarm over widespread sex abuse against children.
Nearly 11,000 cases of child rape were reported in India in 2015, according to the National Crime Records Bureau’s latest figures.
It said three children were raped every day in Delhi alone.
The city, known as India’s rape capital, hit global headlines in 2012 for the fatal gang-rape of a young female student.