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A five-year-old girl has died after being raped in the central 
Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, an official said Tuesday, in the 
latest in a series of brutal attacks that have sparked outrage 
in the country.

The girl suffered cardiac arrest and died late Monday at a 
hospital in Nagpur city in neighbouring Maharashtra state where 
she was being treated for injuries from the April 18 assault, 
said Bharat Yadav, collector for Seoni district, where the 
attack occurred.

Two men have been arrested in connection with the attack, he 
said.

The girl was lured by one of the men to a farm, where she was 
then raped by the other man, who was a friend of her parents, 
Mr. Yadav said. The parents, poor construction workers, were at 
work when the attack occurred, he said.

Ravi Manadiar, an administrator at the hospital, said the girl 
suffered a brain injury when the men tried to smother her cries 
and was in a coma from April 20 until she died.

In Nagpur, the mother of the girl was inconsolable.

�The court should give them the strictest punishment ever,� she 
sobbed Tuesday.

�These men should be burned alive so that the whole world will 
see how such criminals ought to be punished,� she said, wiping 
her tears with the corner of her sari.

About 40 supporters of the opposition Congress party held a 
rally in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh, to protest what 
they said was a rise in violence against women in the state.

They burned an effigy of the state�s top elected official, Chief 
Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who belongs to the Bharatiya 
Janata Party.

Earlier this month, another five-year-old girl was kidnapped, 
raped and tortured by two men who then abandoned her in a locked 
room in New Delhi. She is still recovering at a hospital in the 
city.

Police refused to register a case when the girl�s parents 
reported that their daughter was missing. Hundreds of people 
protested outside police headquarters in New Delhi for three 
days, angry over allegations of police inaction and indifference 
to the parents� complaints.

Indian media have begun to report sexual assaults more 
aggressively since the fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old student 
on a moving bus in New Delhi in December. That attack triggered 
outrage across India about the treatment of women in the 
country, and spurred the government to pass tougher laws for 
crimes against women, including the death penalty for repeat 
offenders or for rapes that lead to the victim�s death.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/five-year-old-indian-
rape-victim-dies/article11628161/

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