Eight-year-old girl is raped and murdered by a group of boys aged 12 and 13 after being lured to a remote area while playing in a park in India
- WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT
- The girl was playing in a park when she was lured to a secluded area
- She was then raped and murdered, before her body was thrown into a canal
An eight-year-old schoolgirl was tragically raped and murdered by a group of boys who lured her to a remote part of a park in India where she was playing.
The three boys, aged 12 and 13, murdered the girl in the Nandyala district of Andhra Pradesh, southeastern India, before telling local police they had dumped her body in a nearby irrigation canal.
She was reported missing by her father. He hadn’t seen her since Sunday, after she went to the park to play.
Police launched a formal investigation, interviewing residents and deploying sniffer dogs, which led the search for the three boys, who were reportedly at school with the girl.
After being questioned by police, they admitted that they had lured her into a secure room, where they took turns raping her.
The three boys, aged 12 and 13, murdered the young girl in Nandyala district of Andhra Pradesh, southeastern India (photo)
Fearing punishment if the girl told her parents about the horrific attack, they killed her and threw her body into a canal.
Her body has still not been found. Police have sent several teams to the nearby Krishna River to search for her body.
That’s why the local police are still treating it as a missing person case.
Women in India are increasingly facing sexual violence, with an average of 90 rapes reported every day in 2022, according to data from the country’s National Crime Records Bureau.
The actual number of sexual abuse cases is likely to be much higher, as many people refuse to report the crime, not trusting the police to investigate the crimes properly and fearing reprisals.
“We are now witnessing the worst phase of sexual violence and misogyny,” said Kavita Srivastava, secretary general of the Peoples Union of Civil Liberties, DW.
‘This is the new India, where the rule of law seems to have completely collapsed. This has the greatest impact on women, as it is also a period of brazen consolidation of patriarchy.’