An 18-year-old girl, trafficked from West Bengal a year ago, is critical and battling for life at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital in Delhi with severe injuries all over the body after being raped by over ten men everyday for six months.
“I have been taken to Rishikesh, Haridwar, Manali, Mangalore and many other locations and kept at someone’s place where people used to come and rape me. This happened for over six months and traffickers used to beat me up on refusal,” the girl told Hindustan Times in a report.
“The likely cause of infection is repeated sexual assault. She was brought here by a man who claimed to be her relative. But after her condition deteriorated, the person also disappeared,” said a doctor at the hospital.
With no one to look after, the girl is at the mercy of attendants. With infections all over her legs, she can’t even talk, sit or walk following repeated sexual assaults for months, said doctors who had to remove pus to prevent spreading of infection.
Shakti Vahini, an NGO, received the information in April about the girl’s trafficking and was trying to locate her since then. It was on Monday that they were told by the Kolkata Police that the girl is admitted at Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital.
“The girl has been diagnosed with Septic Arthritis, and displayed visible lacerations in and around her mouth consistent with gag wounds. She lies in a critical state, unable to make use of her lower limbs. The victim has reported about sexual abuse and multiple sexual assaults over the last six months. She has also reported about her being used in prostitution rackets,” said Ravi Kant, president of Shakti Vahini.
This is the second such case in as many days. Trafficking and sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl, who was raped by 20 men in a day, had come to light on Monday.