India: 3-year-old girl sexually assaulted on Delhi bus rape anniversary

DELHI —A three-year-old Indian girl was raped allegedly by her 40-year-old neighbour at his home in Delhi’s Bindapur on Sunday.

According to police, the girl was found unconscious from her neighbour’s room and her private parts sustained injuries.

Locals in the area found the accused and attacked him after the incident came to light, reported Times of India.

The girl's parents, who are daily wage labourers, were away when the incident occurred and the accused allegedly lured the girl with sweets and picked her up from outside her house.

Police have registered a case for rape under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO) Act, which could see the death penalty handed out to the accused.

The incident came exactly six years after the horrific December 16, 2012 gangrape incident.

Delhi Bus Rape

Jyoti Singh,  a physiotherapy student, was raped and left for dead by a gang of five men and a teenager on a bus in the Indian capital New Delhi in December 2012.

The 23-year-old woman was coming home from the cinema with a male friend when a six-strong gang beat the man unconscious before raping and torturing her.

She was assaulted with an iron bar as the private bus drove loops for 45 minutes before she was dumped on the streets. Singh suffered horrific internal injuries and died 13 days later in a Singapore hospital.

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A child is sexually abused every 15 minutes in India, according to NGO Child Rights and You. Crimes against minors have risen more than 500 percent over the past decade, the non-profit organisation said, after analysing government data.

The number of reported rapes of children increased from 8,541 in 2012 to 19,765 in 2016 and more than 240 million women living in India were married before they turned 18.