6-year-old sex abuse victim slips into severe depression

"The girl is in deep shock. Her mother, who met her on Thursday morning, cried on seeing the bite marks on her child's body. This further depressed the girl," sources said.

Hospital authorities said the man who brought the girl claimed he was her uncle and that she suffered injuries while playing. Doctors, however, suspected something amiss on noticing that she bore 15 bite marks on her body, including the lips. The man vanished after some persistent questioning.

The hospital authorities alerted the police, who tracked down the girl's alleged abuser. Doreswamy, 46, a real estate agent residing in Kumaraswamy Layout police station limits, was arrested on Wednesday night. The police then managed to get details of the child's parents, based in Belur, Hassan district, and alerted them.

Doreswamy knew the girl's father had a bakery in Akkipet here. After suffering losses, the family shifted to Belur last year. The parents and other relatives arrived in the city around 5 am on Thursday.

"We went to the hospital and were shocked to see our child in such a pathetic condition," said the victim's maternal uncle. Kumaraswamy Layout police said they had sent the victim for medical tests and would take further action after the reports are out.

The Child Welfare Committee has summoned the child's parents on Friday. It is also checking their credentials.

A case under sections 376 and 323 of IPC has been registered against Doreswamy. The CWC is pressing the police to invoke relevant sections of Juvenile Justice Act against the accused.

The six-year-old victim of sexual abuse is the elder child of her parents. She has a brother. Doreswamy, a real estate agent, knew the girl's parents as they had lived in the same locality as his. The family later moved to their native Belur in Hassan.

According to the girl's uncle, Doreswamy, who was not married, promised the child's father his help in setting up a bakery near Banashankari. "As my niece had suffered a leg injury, Doreswamy promised her father that he would get it treated in Bangalore," the uncle said.

The child's right leg was fractured when she fell down while playing. "Doreswamy told her parents that he knew many orthopedics and would get her treated for free. But the child's father took her to an orthopedic in Hassan and the fracture was treated by installing a tiny iron rod above her knee," the uncle explained. "Doreswamy returned again and told my brother-in-law that he would help him set up a bakery," another relative said. On December 6, the father came to Bangalore, left the child at Doreswamy's place and left for Hosur on some work. Four days later, the child was brought to hospital by Doreswamy, sources said.

An elderly patient at the private hospital where the girl was an in-patient for three days described the abuser as "worse than Ajmal Kasab". "Kasab was brainwashed by jihadi extremists and attacked people who he thought were from an enemy nation. But what's wrong with this man? He is deprived and has behaved like an animal with a child," she said.

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Man abuses 6-year-old girl for two years, detained

Bangalore, December 13: A six-year-old victim of sexual abuse was admitted to a Bangalore hospital by her alleged tormentor who mysteriously disappeared and was later nabbed by police. The girl is suspected to be from a daily wage worker's family and sexually abused by a close relative.

The girl is recuperating in a hospital in Banashankari, South Bangalore. She told doctors that she was abused by the man who brought to her to the hospital on Monday.

"The man who brought the girl to the hospital said she was hurt while playing. However, there were bad bruises on the girl's body. Doctors asked the child what had happened. From the girl's narration of events, the doctors learnt that the man was physically and sexually abusing her for two years," Meena Jain, chairperson, Child Welfare Committee, said. The doctors found 15 marks on her body that suggested abuse.

The man, a resident of Kumaraswamy Layout, is believed to have told hospital officials that he was the girl's uncle. When asked again, he said he had found the girl two years ago and that she was with him since then. He again changed his statement and claimed the girl was his sister.

The man allegedly made good his escape after persistent questioning by the hospital authorities. However, Kumaraswamy Layout police late on Wednesday night managed to trace the man and picked him up for questioning.