Mum gang-raped on bus by attackers who killed her two-week-old baby as her toddler watched
A MOTHER has been gang-raped in front of her three-year-old daughter by attackers who also killed her two-week-old son.
A mother has been gang raped by attackers who killed her two-week-old son as her toddler watched
The 28-year-old woman was travelling with her two children on a bus when two men assaulted and raped her.
The woman’s toddler daughter hid in a corner of the bus as the horrific attack unfolded in Shishgarh in northern India.
During the assault the two men forced alcohol down the woman’s throat and threw her two-week-old baby boy as she fought and struggled, according to The Times of India.
She was allegedly raped inside the bus at the bus station. Later, she found her child dead
The infant is said to have instantly died from the impact.
Having witnessed the harrowing ordeal, the little girl managed to slip out the bus without her mother’s attackers seeing.
The attackers then threw the woman off the bus onto the road near a bus stop before fleeing the scene.
Police said two men had been arrested and charged with gang rape and culpable homicide
The toddler who survived was later found beside her mother’s unconscious body and the dead infant after the woman’s husband sent out a search party for his missing family.
The little girl has since given an account of the horrific incident.
Police spokesman Surendra Singh Panwar said two men had been arrested and charged with gang rape and culpable homicide.
Women have repeatedly held demonstrations against the high level of violence against women in India
He said: “The woman reached Shishgarh on Monday evening. At the bus station, from where she was to catch a bus to Bareilly, where she met the two accused.”
Another police spokesman Yamuna Prasad added: “Her child had been sick for some time and she went to visit her sister to meet a tantrik (a Buddhist healer).
“She was returning when she met the two accused at the bus station. She was allegedly raped inside the bus at the bus station. Later, she found her child dead.”
The gruesome attack is the latest in a string of shocking rapes and assaults against women in India.
Woman is gang-raped on a moving bus in horrific attack
The teenager had suffered severe burns to 95 per cent of her body.
The fatal gang rape of a young woman travelling on a bus in New Delhi in 2012 led to a public outcry about the high levels of violence and sexual assaults against women in India.
Mourners at the funeral of a 15-year-old girl who was raped and set on fire this week
Joy Singh, a 23-year-old student, died after being brutally raped inside a bus in the Indian capital.
The woman was travelling with a male friend when they were brutally beaten, stripped and thrown out of the vehicle.
The case led to a reform of rape laws in the country, but high numbers of violence against women still exists.