NOIDA: Two boys, aged 7 and 8 years, have been detained and sent to a juvenile home for allegedly raping a three-year-old toddler in a Noida village on Thursday night. Asked by counsellors what had actually happened, the two said they were just playing when the girl suffered the injuries to her genitals.
The alleged rape may not have come to the fore had the mother not noticed trickles of blood in the child’s genitals on Friday morning. She asked the two boys about the injuries, and they apparently feigned ignorance saying that they were just playing with her.
“After I noticed blood in her private parts, I repeatedly asked my daughter what had happened to her. But she can’t speak properly. She could only say that she got injured while playing with the two boys. I went outside and encountered the boys. They told me casually they were only playing with my daughter,” the toddler’s mother mentioned in her complaint to police.
The mother, who works as a domestic help in nearby housing societies, filed a complaint at Sector 49 police station. She alleged in her complaint that two boys had tried to force themselves on the toddler and could have inserted their fingers into her genitals while playing.
Dharmender Sharma, the station house officer (SHO) of Sector 49 police station, said that he had received the complaint and ordered a medical examination of the toddler. Later on Friday night, a report of the medical examination confirmed injuries to her genitals.
“The two boys have been detained. A medical test conducted on the girl has confirmed there are injuries to her genitals. The boys have told the counsellors they were just playing when the girl suffered the injuries,” said Sharma.
The father of the two boys work as daily wage labourers and their mothers are domestic helps.
Police said an FIR had been registered against the boys under IPC section 376 (rape) along with sections 5 and 6 of the Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act, which account for punishment for aggravated penetrative sexual assault crime on a child.
Sharma said the two boys had been produced before the juvenile justice board and sent to an observation home on Friday.
Noida has seen a steady rise in the number of Pocso cases registered last year in comparison to those in 2018. Cases of crime against children shot up from 107 in 2018 to 121 a year on. Rape cases, on the other hand, also went up from 59 in 2018 to 60 registered in 2019.
Experts argue that many cases of crime against children are withdrawn midway because a consensus is reached outside courts. Since most of such cases occur in rural areas, many parents avoid reaching out to the police.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
The alleged rape may not have come to the fore had the mother not noticed trickles of blood in the child’s genitals on Friday morning. She asked the two boys about the injuries, and they apparently feigned ignorance saying that they were just playing with her.
“After I noticed blood in her private parts, I repeatedly asked my daughter what had happened to her. But she can’t speak properly. She could only say that she got injured while playing with the two boys. I went outside and encountered the boys. They told me casually they were only playing with my daughter,” the toddler’s mother mentioned in her complaint to police.
The mother, who works as a domestic help in nearby housing societies, filed a complaint at Sector 49 police station. She alleged in her complaint that two boys had tried to force themselves on the toddler and could have inserted their fingers into her genitals while playing.
Dharmender Sharma, the station house officer (SHO) of Sector 49 police station, said that he had received the complaint and ordered a medical examination of the toddler. Later on Friday night, a report of the medical examination confirmed injuries to her genitals.
“The two boys have been detained. A medical test conducted on the girl has confirmed there are injuries to her genitals. The boys have told the counsellors they were just playing when the girl suffered the injuries,” said Sharma.
The father of the two boys work as daily wage labourers and their mothers are domestic helps.
Police said an FIR had been registered against the boys under IPC section 376 (rape) along with sections 5 and 6 of the Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act, which account for punishment for aggravated penetrative sexual assault crime on a child.
Sharma said the two boys had been produced before the juvenile justice board and sent to an observation home on Friday.
Noida has seen a steady rise in the number of Pocso cases registered last year in comparison to those in 2018. Cases of crime against children shot up from 107 in 2018 to 121 a year on. Rape cases, on the other hand, also went up from 59 in 2018 to 60 registered in 2019.
Experts argue that many cases of crime against children are withdrawn midway because a consensus is reached outside courts. Since most of such cases occur in rural areas, many parents avoid reaching out to the police.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
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