Mother recalls horror of finding baby covered in blood after being raped

New Delhi: Days after the Delhi police arrested a 42-year-old man who confessed to snatching an 11-month-old baby and raping her for two hours near a drain in Vikaspuri area, the toddler's mother has spoken out, recalling her ordeal.

According to a report in Daily Mail, the mother woke up at 1 am to find her baby missing and began screaming in horror. The mother said the baby was taken away from her in the middle of the night when she had been sleeping in a tent at a construction site where her husband works as a labourer.

'I woke up and she was gone. I don’t know what stirred me but when I knew she was missing I was screaming and crying for help,' she was quoted in the report.

When the worried parents couldn’t find their child anywhere, they sought police’s help and it took them less then an hour to find the toddler. They found her lying unconscious in bushes, with blood spots smearing her tiny body. Her clothes were in complete disarray and she had scratches and cut marks everywhere.

'When I saw the police holding my baby I was shocked, I couldn’t speak. I was numb. I was crying. How did it happen?,' she said.

Her daughter was taken to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital and was treated for severe bleeding. The grief-stricken mother now fears that her toddler may suffer from long-term health complications because of the brutality she was subjected to.

'We didn’t expect this. We were at peace. I thought we were safe. We all work together. It’s nice. We didn’t expect that something like this could happen. We didn’t do anything wrong, didn’t fight with anyone. I felt completely helpless,' the distraught mother said.

Both parents were engulfed with shock due to the incident and the father expressed guilt over the fact that he could not protect his little one. The couple plans to leave the area but said they could not make hasty decisions as they do not have the money or resources to take such a big step.

The Delhi police had arrested 42-year-old Vijay Singh for the crime and have charged him with rape. He confessed to raping the child for close to two hours and has been locked up in Tihar jail.