UP: Adoption requests pour in a day after teen rape victim delivers baby
Bareilly: A day after a teen rape victim delivered a baby in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district, adoption requests have poured in for the child.
According to a report in Hindustan Times, 24 couples have approached the girl’s family with adoption request.
The 14-year-old rape victim, whose family ran from pillar to post to terminate her pregnancy, gave birth to a baby boy in an ambulance on Thursday after a nurse refused to assist her in delivery.
The girl was raped several times by a man in her village, who had promised to marry her, but was abandoned after she conceived. Ever since, the family has been unsuccessfully trying to terminate the pregnancy.
The family was declined permission to abort the baby by two courts in Bareilly, following which, the family later approached the Allahabad High Court, which set up a medical board to review her case.
Due to the advanced stages of pregnancy, the board noted, termination was not a feasible option.
All hopes for the family were finally dashed on Wednesday when the girl was beset with labour pains. Accompanied by her mother, aunt and the village midwife, the girl was admitted to the community health centre (CHC).
However, when the nurse at CHC came to know about the rape case, she asked the family members to take the girl to district hospital and also declined to arrange for an ambulance. She asked the family members to take the girl to the district hospital in an autorickshaw.
The family members finally arranged for an ambulance and the girl delivered baby en route to the district hospital. One reaching the district hospital, she was admitted and attended by the duty nurse, who cut the umbilical cord.
