9 year-old girl gang-raped : Crime News

CUTTACK: Yet another case of alleged rape has surfaced in the state, this time the victim is a nine-year-old girl from Bhadrak. The minor girl with severe perineal injuries is undergoing treatment at the SCB medical college and hospital, Cuttack. The girl was referred from Bhadrak district headquarter hospital to SCB in a very critical condition on Sunday night. The doctors carried out an immediate surgery to save the life of the girl. "The minor girl had sustained severe perineal injuries.
Doctors have operated on her and she is currently under observation in the gynecology ward of the hospital," said Dr B N Moharana, doctor of SCB hospital. Doctors suspect it could be a case of rape. "We suspect it as a rape case as the private parts of the patient are severely injured. Her family members are also alleging the same. We have informed police about the entire incident," said a doctor of the hospital. Doctors have said the girl, from Basudevpur in Bhadrak district, is stable now. "Family members have alleged the girl had gone to a relative's place in Simulia and was allegedly raped by some miscreants there," said a doctor.