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An eight-month-old Indian girl was on Tuesday recovering in hospital after she was raped at her home in Delhi, the latest such case in a country notorious for high levels of sexual violence.
The girl's parents rushed her to hospital after discovering her bed covered in blood when they returned from work on Sunday. She later underwent a three-hour operation for her injuries.
The Press Trust of India said the girl's 27-year-old 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.”
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 the widespread sexual abuse of 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.
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Jan 30, 2018 12:17pm
Sickening
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Jan 30, 2018 12:18pm
Extremely sad. Prayers for the innocent child and family. Death penalty for rapists must be imposed, so no one can dare to commit such heinious crime.
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Jan 30, 2018 12:19pm
This is tragic and truly heartbreaking that such person could do to a eight year old baby. I hope she gets justice and he should be hanged in public. Deepest condolences to the family of the victim.
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Jan 30, 2018 12:21pm
We are not Humans any more..
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Jan 30, 2018 12:31pm
This defies senses and comprehension ! Unbelievable !
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Jan 30, 2018 12:33pm
I am just speechless and horrified by this news. This kind of barbarism does not even occur in aminals or reptiles. I feel sick yo my stomach.
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Jan 30, 2018 12:34pm
This is really a dreadful moment . ..... there should be proper line and order to inhibit such incidents.
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Jan 30, 2018 12:35pm
Dreadful activity.....
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Jan 30, 2018 12:43pm
What in Delhi is driving men towards abnormal sexual behavior?
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Jan 30, 2018 12:43pm
Very shameful and Highly disgusting !!!
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Jan 30, 2018 12:45pm
Sexual frustrations.
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Jan 30, 2018 12:50pm
men are the problem
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Jan 30, 2018 12:51pm
@Ahsan Anwar she is not 8 year old and unbelievably 8 month old baby. Such a sick mind of rapist and he should be given exemplary punishment.
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Jan 30, 2018 12:54pm
Inhuman, absolutely disgusting
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Jan 30, 2018 01:00pm
Culprit deserves death penalty.
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Jan 30, 2018 01:10pm
Need to tight law and timely Justice will able reduce it.
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Jan 30, 2018 01:11pm
A human can become an animal in no time! so tragic! The dark of technology at work!
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Jan 30, 2018 01:12pm
@Juwad same as in Kasur
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Jan 30, 2018 01:20pm
Severity of penalty can do little to stop these kind of crimes. It is a sociological issue. An integrated approach to find the causes and multi-pronged corrective measures alone can reduce the rate of these kind of crimes. It is a very difficult but achievable task.
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Jan 30, 2018 01:30pm
Thanks to successive Govts. for making Delhi a slum, with people from Bihar, East UP, Bangladesh, Myanmar... polluting the city,.& results are in front of everyone..
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Jan 30, 2018 01:30pm
@neutral I think he meant that amount of rapes by number has become more common in Delhi.
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Jan 30, 2018 01:31pm
How sad and the punishment should be acoordingly without impunity.
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Jan 30, 2018 01:37pm
Reprehensible. Show the picture of the accused.
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Jan 30, 2018 01:48pm
This rape epidemic must stop now. Enough is Enough. We need very strict punishments to deter these savage culprits. Make new and strict laws and apply these laws with immediate effect before it is too late. The time is running and the rape epidemic is getting out of control with each passing day.
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Jan 30, 2018 01:51pm
Please kill me; have no courage to listen such news every morning.
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Jan 30, 2018 02:08pm
@Ahsan Anwar Not 8 years old. The little angel is only 8 months old. Our Humanity is already dead.
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Jan 30, 2018 02:15pm
Sick and mentally retards everywhere.
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Jan 30, 2018 02:16pm
who are these people????
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Jan 30, 2018 02:20pm
@Ahsan Anwar Not 8 years old, it's 8 months old. Exactly the mistake i made and this is so heart wrenching.
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Jan 30, 2018 02:37pm
These excuse for human beings should be caught and subject to death. But sadly, we have a large number of people on both sides of border who will do everything in their power to ensure that death penalty can not be imposed.
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Jan 30, 2018 03:07pm
Only 8 months old child...total barbarism
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Jan 30, 2018 03:08pm
Uterrly ugly!
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Jan 30, 2018 04:13pm
Disgusting
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Jan 30, 2018 05:18pm
@Ahsan Anwar 8 months
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Jan 30, 2018 05:41pm
absolutely sickening...
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Jan 30, 2018 05:45pm
8 Months. Not 8 years
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Jan 30, 2018 06:03pm
In all seriousness, only in Africa and South Asia does one see this behavior.
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Jan 30, 2018 06:20pm
What is the world coming to? Humanity has disappeared
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Jan 30, 2018 06:25pm
Feel like crying.
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Jan 30, 2018 06:30pm
Extremely sad and tragic. My prayers to the baby and her family. This part of world is now seeing a kind of brutality that breaks heart and soul.
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Jan 30, 2018 06:48pm
May this insanity be wiped out. And may the family and the little girl recover. The perpetrator must be punished severely.
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Jan 30, 2018 07:13pm
Good Job Dawn News. I didn't see this news on Hindustan Times online version.
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Jan 30, 2018 07:48pm
Feel gutted to learn that.
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Jan 30, 2018 08:07pm
Block the pornographic sites.
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Jan 30, 2018 08:08pm
Sick people !
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Jan 30, 2018 08:09pm
Speechless! This has to be sickest act against an innocent child!
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Jan 30, 2018 08:19pm
8 months old!!!!!!
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Jan 30, 2018 09:31pm
Little angel opened her eyes and saw the dirtiest face of the humanity. She must have cried but no one was there to help her. Today entire humanity dies. For the first time I am feeling ashamed of being a man. This is a spot on the face of humanity.
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Jan 30, 2018 10:24pm
@Juwad It's geographical closeness to Lahore, maybe?
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Jan 30, 2018 11:03pm
@Ahsan Anwar 8 months* old baby
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Jan 30, 2018 11:08pm
@Attaullah - Thul - my heart bleeds after reading your comments. You are so right. Thanks
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Jan 30, 2018 11:20pm
@Ahsan Anwar she was just 8 months old
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Jan 30, 2018 11:24pm
Very sad and below level of humanity.
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Jan 31, 2018 12:27am
@Rajiv Uppal. No excuse can justify such treatment to am eight month old.
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Jan 31, 2018 01:42am
What a shame? This can only happen in the biggest sham and shame democracy of the world.
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Jan 31, 2018 01:53am
I am very sad today! I am not sure what to expect and what to say. Delhi is becoming a hell!!
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Jan 31, 2018 02:08am
Wo are these sick people in our societies. This issue needs to be seriously examined from the social. human psychological path. How is our society producing such evils
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Jan 31, 2018 02:15am
@Umair Ahmed , Death penalty is not the solution. Do you know that sweden has the lowest crime rate in the world and they dont have a death penalty?
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Jan 31, 2018 02:21am
@Ahsan Anwar Read again...it says 8 MONTH old ..not 8 YEARS....
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Jan 31, 2018 02:22am
@Ahsan Anwar The victim was 8-month old, not 8-year.
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Jan 31, 2018 02:25am
At first glance, I though it said 8 YEAR old. That was sad enough. Then I realised it said month. And then it became horrifying.
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Jan 31, 2018 02:29am
@R-Khan it was in a upper middle class. Stick to facts.
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Jan 31, 2018 03:11am
No words to express.
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Jan 31, 2018 03:24am
Society please think beyond introducing awareness in children about this.We can not put the responsibility of children's protection on children and give ourself a false sense of security that we have done the needed.Children's protection is the responsibility of adults and that without robbing them of their innocence .
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Jan 31, 2018 03:49am
@Ahsan Anwar she's 8*months old
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Jan 31, 2018 05:10am
@Ahsan Anwar 8 months, not 8 years
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Jan 31, 2018 06:39am
@Ahsan Anwar Eight MONTHS not eight YEARS
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Jan 31, 2018 07:13am
@Ahsan Anwar not 8 years but 8 months old baby girl
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Jan 31, 2018 07:23am
Both countries are new in competition of stooping low in morality. Need to go back to cricket
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Jan 31, 2018 09:47am
@Erum
do you know per capita income in sweden?
do you know about welfare system of sweden?
same rules can't be applied everywhere.
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Jan 31, 2018 10:08am
@Ahsan Anwar It says 8 month old not 8 year.
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Jan 31, 2018 11:53pm
@Ahsan Anwar the ironically shocking part is"8 months old"
That's heart breaking.
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Feb 01, 2018 04:25am
@Ahsan Anwar 8 months
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Feb 01, 2018 05:50am
@George Men behaved like animals long before technology came along
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Feb 01, 2018 09:42am
Delhi is letting the country image going in downward direction. Delhi's men are seriously sick and can't be treated. It's high time to change the countries capital.
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Feb 01, 2018 01:42pm
punish them as per shriah law and you will see how fast the rate will come down .
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