A 10-year-old girl is in critical condition after being abducted from the street and allegedly raped in Fatullah on Thursday midnight.
According to police and the victim, she was abducted from the Chandmari area, taken to a house in Shibu Market, rendered unconscious, and raped before being abandoned by the roadside.
The victim, who was groaning in pain from her hospital bed, stated that she resides with her mother in the city’s Missionpara area.
Her mother works in a chocolate factory.
The victim and her younger sister earn a living selling flowers in front of the Chashara Shaheed Minar.
On the night of the incident, her younger sister had failed to return home, prompting their mother to send her out to locate the sibling and bring her back.
While she was searching, an unidentified man approached her, offered to help find her younger sister, and boarded her onto an auto-rickshaw.
The man took her to Shibu Market and pressed a handkerchief over her mouth.
When she regained consciousness towards dawn, she found herself lying on a bed inside a room.
Anwar Hossain, Inspector of Fatullah Model Police Station, who was present beside the child at the hospital, stated that after being left beside the road in a semi-conscious state, a woman spotted the child and brought her to the city’s Khanpur Hospital.
However, the woman left the premises before attending physicians or hospital authorities could ascertain her particulars, leaving her name and address unknown.
Hospital authorities informed the police that neither the time nor the exact location where the girl was discovered could be determined.
Attending doctors at the hospital confirmed to police that the child had been subjected to rape.
Inspector Hossain added that the child’s condition remains critical due to severe haemorrhaging.
Police personnel were dispatched, and the child was initially moved to Victoria Hospital, from where she was subsequently transferred to Dhaka Medical for advanced treatment.
