1Associate Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal
2PGT, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal
3Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal
*Corresponding author: Th. Meera, Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal-795004. email: drmeerath@gmail.com
Online published on 8 January, 2016.
Children are easy victims of sexual crime as they are ignorant, defenceless and helpless. Such cases are not immediately reported as they are unaware of what is actually happening to them or are threatened by the assailant not to reveal. This makes the picture all the sadder as due to their weaker physique, death is an imminent threat. In the present case, an 8 year old girl was sexually assaulted by her neighbour and then killed after the act to conceal the crime. The facts that perpetrators are usually people in the vicinity of the victim, killing as a means of concealing the crime and lynching of the perpetrator by mob are highlighted in this case.
Child rape, murder, assailant, mob justice, lynching
