A 14-year-old school girl who was raped, bludgeoned and buried alive miraculously survived her ordeal after her parents heard her desperate cries for help in India.
The girl was allegedly attacked close to her home by a 35-year-old neighbour after she went out to switch off a farm motor.
According to SUN, the teen was raped, before being thrown into a ravine and buried alive with stones and bushes.
Police say the attacker saw the schoolgirl alone as she ran an errand in her village in the Betul district of India’s Madhya Pradesh region at around 5 pm on Monday, say officers.
He then launched the nightmare ordeal on his young victim, said Betul Superintendent of Police Simala Prasad.
The family searched in the darkness until they heard “cries” and whimpering coming from a ravine close to their farm.
“She had gone out at around 5 pm, and when she did not return after a few hours, her family began searching for her,” said Mahendra Chouhan, officer-in-charge at nearby Sarni police station.
“They heard some cries near a nullah – or ravine – close to their farm. In the torchlight, they followed the cries and found the survivor.”
The report said the family managed to free the girl from the pit and rushed her to a nearby medical centre, before she was referred to Nagpur Medical College, around 120 miles from her village, because of the severity of her condition.
She was “semi-conscious” when she was first taken to doctors, added officer Chouhan, and told cops she knew the rapist.
“One team took the survivor to hospital and another team was dispatched to arrest the accused,” he added.
“He was caught within hours and her condition is stable.”
The alleged rapist has been arrested and booked for rape, as well as charged under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, he said.
The alleged rape is the latest in a series of brutal attacks on young girls from India’s Dalit community
Source: Gossips24.com
