A five-year-old girl is fighting for her life in the intensive care unit of Kamala Raja Hospital, Gwalior, after a brutal assault allegedly perpetrated by a 17-year-old neighbour in the Shivpuri district of Madhya Pradesh.
The victim, discovered in a blood-soaked condition on Sunday, has sustained grievous injuries, including severe bite marks and extensive internal trauma.
Medical examiners at Kamala Raja Hospital, who performed emergency surgery, revealed the girl’s critical condition upon admission.
“When she was admitted, doctors were almost hopeless about her survival. However, they managed to stabilise her situation,” a hospital spokesperson stated.
The surgical team administered 28 stitches to the girl’s private parts and performed a colostomy to address the severe internal injuries.
Doctors told local media that “her private parts were extremely damaged and they had to perform a complex procedure to reconstruct the affected areas.”
The incident, which occurred on 22nd February, involved a 17-and-a-half-year-old boy, reportedly under the influence of alcohol. According to police reports, the accused lured the girl from the rooftop of her home to a nearby abandoned house.
There, he subjected her to a sexual assault, during which he repeatedly slammed her head against a wall.
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The victim was found unconscious. Upon regaining consciousness, she told her parents that the accused “took her in his lap and did ‘terrible things’.”
The girl was discovered by her younger brother and other children, who witnessed the accused.
Their screams prompted him to flee, leaving the victim in the abandoned house.
Her parents, who had been searching for her for over two hours, found her in a pool of blood.
The accused has been apprehended by the police and is being treated as a juvenile offender.
The family has demanded that the accused “be either hanged or shot at the crossroads.”
A large-scale protest erupted at the Shivpuri Collectorate on Monday, with members of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress, and local residents submitting a memorandum to the Collector and Superintendent of Police, demanding the death penalty for the perpetrator.
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