A toddler and a five-year-old girl were raped in separate attacks in
New Delhi overnight with at least one gang-raped, police said Saturday,
as activists warned of an “epidemic” of sexual violence in the capital.
The two-and-a-half-year-old girl was abducted from a religious event
in west Delhi by two men on Friday night and raped before being dumped
in a park near her home, relatives and police said.
In a separate incident on the other side of the city, the
five-year-old was lured to a neighbour’s house and raped by three men, a
police officer told AFP.
The two attacks come as New Delhi grapples with a grim litany of
sexual attacks against women — and in several recent cases, children —
that have sparked outrage in India and abroad.
“We have launched a manhunt for the suspects. So far no one has been
arrested,” Pushpendra Kumar, West Delhi police chief, told AFP of the
younger girl’s case.
He said they found the younger child bleeding profusely several hours
after she went missing and that tests showed she had been raped at
least once.
Police have arrested three men in the case of the five-year-old
victim whom tests showed was raped multiple times, after locals managed
to catch her assailants and hand them over to the authorities.
“Her clothes were partially torn with blood spots all over them. Some
locals saw her and she told them she was sexually assaulted,” an
officer from Anand Vihar police station told AFP on condition of
anonymity.
“Some of the locals then barged into the house and caught them (the
alleged perpetrators) before handing them over to us,” the officer said.
Both girls are undergoing medical treatment but are believed to be out of danger.
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