6-year-old sex abuse victim slips into severe depression

December 13, 2012
Bangalore, December 14: A six-year-old girl who was allegedly sexually abused by her caretaker has slipped into severe depression. The girl, who was brought to a Banashankari hospital on Monday by her alleged abuser, was shifted to Nimhans on Thursday.

"The girl is in deep shock. Her mother, who met her on Thursday morning, cried on seeing the bite marks on her child's body. This further depressed the girl," sources said.

Hospital authorities said the man who brought the girl claimed he was her uncle and that she suffered injuries while playing. Doctors, however, suspected something amiss on noticing that she bore 15 bite marks on her body, including the lips. The man vanished after some persistent questioning.

The hospital authorities alerted the police, who tracked down the girl's alleged abuser. Doreswamy, 46, a real estate agent residing in Kumaraswamy Layout police station limits, was arrested on Wednesday night. The police then managed to get details of the child's parents, based in Belur, Hassan district, and alerted them.

Doreswamy knew the girl's father had a bakery in Akkipet here. After suffering losses, the family shifted to Belur last year. The parents and other relatives arrived in the city around 5 am on Thursday.

"We went to the hospital and were shocked to see our child in such a pathetic condition," said the victim's maternal uncle. Kumaraswamy Layout police said they had sent the victim for medical tests and would take further action after the reports are out.

The Child Welfare Committee has summoned the child's parents on Friday. It is also checking their credentials.

A case under sections 376 and 323 of IPC has been registered against Doreswamy. The CWC is pressing the police to invoke relevant sections of Juvenile Justice Act against the accused.

The six-year-old victim of sexual abuse is the elder child of her parents. She has a brother. Doreswamy, a real estate agent, knew the girl's parents as they had lived in the same locality as his. The family later moved to their native Belur in Hassan.

According to the girl's uncle, Doreswamy, who was not married, promised the child's father his help in setting up a bakery near Banashankari. "As my niece had suffered a leg injury, Doreswamy promised her father that he would get it treated in Bangalore," the uncle said.

The child's right leg was fractured when she fell down while playing. "Doreswamy told her parents that he knew many orthopedics and would get her treated for free. But the child's father took her to an orthopedic in Hassan and the fracture was treated by installing a tiny iron rod above her knee," the uncle explained. "Doreswamy returned again and told my brother-in-law that he would help him set up a bakery," another relative said. On December 6, the father came to Bangalore, left the child at Doreswamy's place and left for Hosur on some work. Four days later, the child was brought to hospital by Doreswamy, sources said.

An elderly patient at the private hospital where the girl was an in-patient for three days described the abuser as "worse than Ajmal Kasab". "Kasab was brainwashed by jihadi extremists and attacked people who he thought were from an enemy nation. But what's wrong with this man? He is deprived and has behaved like an animal with a child," she said.

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Man abuses 6-year-old girl for two years, detained

Bangalore, December 13: A six-year-old victim of sexual abuse was admitted to a Bangalore hospital by her alleged tormentor who mysteriously disappeared and was later nabbed by police. The girl is suspected to be from a daily wage worker's family and sexually abused by a close relative.

The girl is recuperating in a hospital in Banashankari, South Bangalore. She told doctors that she was abused by the man who brought to her to the hospital on Monday.

"The man who brought the girl to the hospital said she was hurt while playing. However, there were bad bruises on the girl's body. Doctors asked the child what had happened. From the girl's narration of events, the doctors learnt that the man was physically and sexually abusing her for two years," Meena Jain, chairperson, Child Welfare Committee, said. The doctors found 15 marks on her body that suggested abuse.

The man, a resident of Kumaraswamy Layout, is believed to have told hospital officials that he was the girl's uncle. When asked again, he said he had found the girl two years ago and that she was with him since then. He again changed his statement and claimed the girl was his sister.

The man allegedly made good his escape after persistent questioning by the hospital authorities. However, Kumaraswamy Layout police late on Wednesday night managed to trace the man and picked him up for questioning.



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May 14,2020

Six migrant workers have been killed and five others seriously injured when a speeding bus ran over them on the Delhi-Saharanpur Highway near in Muzaffarnagar, officials said on Thursday.

The accused driver, who was suspected to be under the influence of alcohol, has been arrested, said SSP Abhishek Yadav.

The workers were going on foot to their homes in Bihar from Haryana when they were hit on the Delhi-Saharanpur Highway between Ghalili Check Post and Rohana Toll Plaza, about 20 km from here late last night, the official said.

The injured -- Sushil, Nathu Saini, Pawan Saini, Pramod and Ramji Rai --were rushed to hospital.

Two of the deceased were identified as Bijender, 25, and Harsh, 20. The rest were yet to be identified.

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May 28,2020

Hyderabad, MAY 28: A three-year-old boy who accidentally fell into a newly drilled open borewell in Telangana's Medak district was found dead in the early hours of Thursday, police said.

The kid's body was retrieved at around 4 am after a nearly 10 hours' long rescue operation involving different agencies, they said.

"He died a while before we evacuated him, most likely due to the mud that covered him from the top sealing off necessary oxygen supply, " Medak District Superintendent of Police Chandana Deepti told PTI.

The boy had accidentally slipped into the 120- feet borewell at around 5 pm on Wednesday in an agricultural field located in Papannapet mandal of the district when he was walking with his grandfather and father, police earlier said.

As part of rescue efforts, a parallel trench was dug along the borewell hole with the help of earth excavating machines and oxygen was supplied into it, but the efforts went in vain as the boy's body was found stuck at a depth of around 25 feet, the police said.

Apart from the police, National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel were also involved in the rescue operation.

The borewell into which the child fell was one among the three dug by the family since Tuesday night to try and find water for their fields. But none of them yielded any water, police had said.

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January 16,2020

Cuttack, Jan 16: At least 15 passengers were injured as five coaches of the Mumbai-Bhubaneswar Lokmanya Tilak Express derailed and three more were displaced after colliding with a goods train amid heavy fog near Cuttack in Odisha on Thursday, railway officials said.

Railway officials had earlier said that 25 passengers were injured in the incident but later officers who reached the site reported that four passengers were found to have suffered major injuries and 11 had received minor injuries.

Passengers with major injuries have been sent to Cuttack Medical College. All passengers are stated to be out of danger.

Officials said the accident happened when the passenger train hit the guard van of a good train around 7 am between Salagaon and Nergundi stations.

The officials said there was heavy fog at the site but it was not clear what led to the accident. The speedometer of both the trains have been seized for inquiry, East Coast Railway Spokesperson J P Mishra said.

Buses have been arranged for all remaining passengers to move towards their destination.

Cuttack is around 10-12 km away and Bhubaneswar(Terminating station) is 35 km.

The accident disrupted train services in the area.

Five trains have been affected due to the accident where restoration work in underway. These include the Bhubaneswar-Mumbai LTT SF Express, the Puri-Rourkela Express, Dhanbad-Bhubaneshwar Rajyarani Express which have all been diverted via Naraj.

"East Coast Railway acknowledges with deep gratitude help of nearby locals and villagers who have displayed great humanitarian values and come to the rescue of injured passengers," Mishra said.

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