A
mother has told how her 11-month-old baby was snatched from her bed in
the middle of the night and raped for two hours before she was found
unconscious in bushes with her clothes ripped, nail marks all over her
body and covered in blood.
The
mother, 25, let out a piercing scream as she realised the toddler had
been taken as she slept in her parents' bed in a tent on a building site
in Delhi, India.
'I
woke up and she was gone,' she told MailOnline. 'I don’t know what
stirred me but when I knew she was missing I was screaming and crying
for help.'
Recalling
the ordeal, she explained how it took a frantic 30 minute police search
before the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was finally
discovered by police.
She
said she fears her daughter will now suffer from long-term health
problems after being taken from the bed where her husband and their
four-year-old son also slept.
The
family were living in a tent because her father, 27, had been earning
£2 a day as a labourer constructing a new police residential complex in
Vikaspuri, Delhi, northern India, and couldn't afford to pay for more
expensive accommodation.
His
wife of eight years said: 'We were used to sleeping this way. Many
people sleep next to their work in Delhi, I thought we were ok.'
But when she woke up at 1am, to her horror, her baby was missing.
She
said: 'We shouted for help. I was shouting so loudly I woke everyone up
in nearby tents and everyone started looking for my daughter. I was
crying for help.
'We
didn’t expect this. We were at peace. I thought we were safe. We all
work together. It’s nice. We didn’t expect that something like this
could happen. We didn’t do anything wrong, didn’t fight with anyone. I
felt completely helpless.'
One of the other labourers called the police, who arrived at 1.30am, and officials quickly arrived and searched the area.
Eventually they found the girl in a nearby jungle area at 2am. She had
her clothes torn and there were bloody scratch marks across her little
body.
She was treated at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital's gynaecology department for severe bleeding.
The
mother went on: 'When I saw the police holding my baby I was shocked, I
couldn’t speak,. I was numb. I was crying. How did it happen?'
Her husband is overwhelmed with guilt that he could not protect his daughter.
He
told MailOnline: 'I am shocked. I never believed this would happen to
my family. I don’t know what to think but God will now punish him for
what he has done to my daughter.
‘We
do not want to stay here now. We’ll go somewhere else. But right now,
we cannot make any decisions, we are too shocked. We have to keep
working and earning money but we are too devastated to think clearly.’
The girl is now recovering after needing stitches.
Toddler snatched from her bed as she slept next to her mother at midnight. The Woman, 25, woke at 1am to find daughter missing and screamed for help, Following frantic search, the little girl was finally found in bushes at 2am, Her clothes were ripped, she was covered in blood and had been raped. The victim may face long term health issues as result of her horrific ordeal
Pushpendra Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (West Delhi), confirmed that a man was arrested and has been charged with rape.
Vijay Singh, 42, has reportedly admitted that he took the child to the bushes beside a drain and raped her for almost two hours.
Mr
Kumar said: ‘We found the baby around 2am in the nearby jungle with her
clothes torn. The accused has been arrested and the charge sheet has
been filed. He is now locked up in Tihar Jail until the case reaches
court.’
11-month-old Indian girl is snatched from her mother's bed and raped for two hours
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