13-yr-old rape victim delivers baby in Bhopal

N D Sharma:

A 13-year-old rape victim delivered a healthy baby at a local hospital yesterday — but she is displaying symptoms of acute anaemia.

The State Women Commission has taken up the tribal girl’s case and is also trying to get the rapist arrested.

Mantribai of Barethi village in Betul district used to take cattle to fields for grazing.

In September last year she was allegedly raped several times by Khudi Gaur, a forest watchman, who threatened her with dire consequences if she ever talked to any one. It was only after she got pregnant did the terrified child told her mother what had happened.

Jinagubai lodged a complaint with the Amla police station.

The girl was taken to the district hospital and delivered in the first week of June.

Crushed before they bloom