Seven-year-old raped in West Champaran village

BETTIAH: In another shocking instance, a minor was reportedly raped in West Champaran on Tuesday night. This comes close on the heels of other incidents of rape in the state in recent weeks including the rape of a two-year-old in Gaya on Tuesday.
Late on Tuesday night, a seven-year-old girl was abducted from outside her home in Majhaulia police station area in West Champaran district by a village youth.The minor victim’s mother told police that she and her daughter had gone to sleep on a ‘machaan’ outside her home after coming back from a wedding in the village late on Tuesday night. She was abruptly woken up by her wailing daughter in the wee hours of Wednesday. Absolutely distraught, the little girl told her mother that she had found herself awoken behind a bank ( half a km from home) where one Munna Mukhiya, a villager, sexually assaulted her.
“He abducted my daughter in her sleep, took her away and did ‘zabardasti’ with her,” the distressed mother told the police.
The minor fell unconscious soon after narrating her nightmare to her mother. She was immediately rushed to the primary health centre in Majhaulia from where she was referred to MJK Hospital in Bettiah.
West Champaran SP Jayant Kant while confirming the lodging of the case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act said, “The accused has been arrested. An FSL team has arrived and is collecting exhibits and examining the case.”
On Tuesday also, a two-year-old girl playing outside her home in Gaya was forcibly lifted and taken to a room by a local youth. Neighbours rushed to her rescue on hearing her cries. The toddler victim was rushed to JPN hospital in a critical condition. The alleged rapist has been arrested.