5-yr-Old Rape Victim: Her condition critical due to infections
The five-year-old girl, brutally tortured and raped in Dinajpur eight days ago, is likely to be operated upon a few weeks later, as doctors are giving priority to her recovery from infections caused by injuries.
Doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where the girl is receiving treatment, yesterday said they found infections in her reproductive organ, and she was still in a critical condition.
Her body bore bite, cut and scratch marks, and the rapist also burnt parts of her body with cigarettes, they said.
Talking to journalists yesterday, Law Minister Anisul Huq assured of quick trial of the culprit.
Bilkis Begum, co-ordinator of the DMCH One-stop Crisis Centre, said doctors conducted some tests on the girl yesterday, and detected cut marks around her reproductive organ.
DMCH Deputy Director Khwaja Abdul Gafur said doctors would provide her treatment for recovery from infections and conduct operation on her a few weeks later.
He said the girl was taken to operation theatre yesterday morning. As the doctors were about to operate on her, they found infections deep in her reproductive organ.
They then decided not to conduct the operation and shifted her to the post-operative care unit, he said.
Gafur mentioned that a nine-member medical board was formed yesterday for her treatment.
Bilkis said the board would sit today, and decide on the treatment of the girl.
On October 18 afternoon, the girl was playing near her home in Jamirhat village in Dinajpur's Parbatipur upazila. Around evening, her mother noticed that she was missing.
Worried sick, the family searched for the girl but couldn't find her, said her rickshaw-puller father.
Next morning, villagers found her lying bloodied and unconscious on a field in the same village.
She was first rushed to a local hospital and later moved to Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH). As her condition worsened, she was shifted to the DMCH, said Bikash Majumder, a paediatrician at the RMCH.
Police arrested the alleged rapist, Saiful Islam, 42, of Parbatipur's Jamirhat village, in Dinajpur town on Monday night.
The girl's father said Saiful, his neighbour and a timber trader, is married but his wife left him a year ago. He is a father of four.
On October 20, the victim's father filed a case with Parbatipur Police Station against Saiful under the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, said police.
LAW MINISTER ASSURES OF QUICK TRIAL
Law Minister Anisul Huq has assured of quick trial of all sensational murder and rape cases, including the one over the rape of the five-year-old girl.
Prosecution would be instructed to place arguments before the trial courts, praying for the maximum punishment for the offenders, so that nobody can dare to commit such crimes in future, he said.
The minister was talking to reporters after a programme at the Judicial Administration Training Institute in the capital.
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