Orphanage for raped minor’s baby
GANG RAPE VICTIM The destitute girl has been discharged from the hospital and sent to child welfare centre, her underweight baby girl is recovering She did not ask to see the baby or hold it.
She told the police that she did not want the baby and even tried to run away from the hospital twice. She was having seizures and her blood pressure was very high. She was in semiconscious condition. She was admitted to the ICU to stabilise her condition. TIMELINE OF THE INCIDENT
NEW DELHI: The destitute minor girl, who was gang raped for months by a gang of snatchers, was discharged from the Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital three days ago and taken to the child welfare committee.
The girl was found unconscious a pavement in Khichripur in east Delhi on December 29. She was pregnant and delivered a pre-term baby two days later at the hospital. Though she had been discharged, her 12-day-old baby is still in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit.
In the next week, if the baby girl starts feeding properly and gains weight, she too will be discharged from the hospital and sent to an NGO-run orphanage, said hospital officials.
The mother did not want to keep the baby and remained unattached after the delivery. “She did not ask to see the baby or hold it. She told the police that she did not want the baby and even tried to run away from the hospital twice, maybe because she thought that she would have to take care of the baby if she stayed,” said a doctor who was treating her.
A nursing staff from the hospital’s gynaecology department described her as “normal”.
“She was scared and traumatised, but she was not mentally ill. She would respond to all of us properly. She just did not like to talk about the rape or the baby,” she said.
The heavily pregnant teenager was brought to the hospital by a woman on December 29.
“She was having seizures and her blood pressure was very high. She was in semi-conscious condition. She was admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) to stabilise her condition. During the physical examination, we realised she was 28 weeks or around seven months pregnant. But, she had no idea,” said the doctor who had conducted her medical examination.
She went into labour and delivered the baby at 6.05pm on December 31.
As the baby was pre-term and weighed only 1.2kgs (anything less than 2.5 kgs is underweight) she was admitted to the neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU) of the hospital. The baby will also be discharged once she gains weight to become at 1.8 kg.
Feed intolerance was the only complication the baby had from being pre-term.
“The baby cannot digest milk properly. We are slowly introducing it to her and she might start eating well in the next 5 or 6 days. This will also help her in gaining weight. She is on antibiotics to prevent any infection and has normal activity,” the baby’s doctor said.
Ombir Singh, DCP (east), said: “We are coordinating with the child welfare committed and NGOs to help the minor girl get back to the mainstream. All possible steps will be taken to rehabilitate her.”
“All requisite steps will be taken to secure the baby’s future,” he said.
A 15-yearold homeless girl was found lying unconscious on a pavement near a Mayur Vihar-I parking lot by a rag picker. He informs the police. A police team rushes the girl to the Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital
Doctors found that the girl was pregnant
The teenager delivers a premature baby girl. The baby is recuperating in the neo-natal unit of the hospital
The teenager regains consciousness. Her statement is recorded before a magistrate at the hospital. She alleges that she was gang-raped multiple times by five boys. All she remembers about the five is that one of them was ‘Mintu’ (name changed). A case of gangrape case was registered at the Mayur Vihar police station. Five teams were formed to identify and nab the alleged accused
Police launch door to door search operation in residential localities around the Metro station to identify and nab Mintu. The exhaustive operation does not yield any result.
One of the teams round up a group of six minor snatchers. One among them identifies himself as Mintu and confesses to allegedly sexually exploiting the girl with his friends.
The girl was sent to child welfare centre