n a shocking incident, a one-and-a-half-year-old girl was allegedly raped by her neighbour in south Delhi, the police said on Monday.
The accused sexually assaulted the girl when he came to her house to play with her, the police said.
The incident took place yesterday evening in the Shahpur Jat area and the accused was arrested.
According to police, the girl’s parents had left her in the care and protection of the accused when they went out to their respective workplaces. The accused, a friend and colleague of the girl’s father in a private security company, lives with them.
“He came back after night duty while the girl’s father left home for his morning duty. Her mother and siblings also left and finding the child alone, the man sexually assaulted her,” said a senior police officer.
When the girl’s mother returned in the evening, she found the child crying and bleeding from the private parts. She took the child to a nearby hospital where it was found that she had been sexually assaulted.
The 21-year-old accused is unmarried
Subsequently, the accused was identified and arrested, the police said.
