First two paragraphs of the article are a pathetic attempt to evoke an emotional response from the readers.
Actual story starts from fourth paragraph. Here's the excerpt:
On Friday, March 6, around 11.15 am, Baby Nirbhaya came to her mother, crying. Her frock was soaked in blood. "She was in terrible pain and would not stop crying. She pointed her fingers at the site's security guard who was standing a few feet away from us. She told me, 'He did it' and I understood," her mother told this newspaper. The illiterate mother then called up her husband and they rushed the child to Sola Civil Hospital. By then, even the cops had reached the spot. Later at night, the doctors referred her to Ahmedabad Civil Hospital and she was shifted there. Investigation revealed horrific details, the kind that we last heard when the Nirbhaya case was first reported.
'12 mm iron rod inserted into her'
The security guard, 20-year-old Kaushal Chauhan, in an act of perversion, inserted a 12-mm-thick four-and-a-half-foot rod into the girl. He claimed he was drunk. Kaushal is not voluble like Delhi rape accused Mukesh Singh. He is a man with no criminal history, always helpful to his neighbours. He ran a panipuri laari, but took up a guard's job through a local agency after his business bombed. Ahmedabad police now has his confession. He has reportedly told them that he is the one who did it because he "just felt like doing it". According to the police, Kaushal took her to the basement of the under-construction complex and inserted the iron rod in her vagina.
Torn rectum, damage to internal organs
With third-degree perineal tear, serious rectum and vaginal injuries, the damage to internal organs is beyond shocking. The girl's haemoglobin level has dropped to 3 due to acute blood loss. The doctors performed a three-hour operation on Baby Nirbhaya. While they have tried to stitch her organs up, internal lacerations and serious harm to the genitalia has forced them to surgically open her intestine to let her pass urine and stool. A senior doctor confirmed to Mirror that even after surgery there are chances of her condition getting worse. "We fear rupturing. Her intestines have been surgically opened through the left side of her lower abdomen so that she can pass urine and stool."
'My son is innocent'
Kaushal's mother Sunita Devi says her son is innocent and is being framed. When told that he had confessed to his crime, she said, "It is not possible. This is a conspiracy." She also adds, "My son was drunk at that time. So he has been framed." She is outraged over the assault on the child though, but in the same breath insists that her son could have never done it. "It is very wrong, but my son has not done it." Kaushal's neighbours at Ajanta Ellora Housing Society in Thaltej vouch for his character. "He is a very straightforward guy who respects women," says a neighbour.
Blood covers 19 cm of the iron rod: FSL
But his confession and the blood-stained iron rod contradicts these claims. The cops sent the rod to the forensic science laboratory for examination. The forensic experts found blood stains up to 19 cm of the rod, suggesting that it was thrust with a lot of force into the girl. Baby Nirbhaya, who was battling for her life on Friday, is currently out of danger. But the pain makes it impossible for her to sleep for more than a few minutes. She wakes up with a jerk and lets out a scream as though she lived the nightmare again. This happens quite often throughout the day. When she sees her mother sitting next to her, trying to put her five-month-old brother to sleep, she feels better. A patient has been generous enough to give her mother a green dupatta, which she has tied on to the legs of two adjacent cots to cradle her son. But nobody visits them. Even as a host of organisations celebrated Women's Day and Girl Safety Week, not a single non-governmental organisation has to come to the aid of Baby Nirbhaya or her mother since Friday. Ironically, Gujarat has the highest number of NGOs registered in the country. And, not to forget, Ahmedabad is perceived as one of the safest cities in the country for women. Baby Nirbhaya's alcoholic father, too, was banned from the hospital premises after he entered the ward in an inebriated state and abused the staff. "I need help, but don't give me any money. I will be forced to give it away to my husband," she pleads.
Docs looking after mother, kids
An efficient and caring team of doctors is all Baby Nirbhaya and her mother has. Dr Rakesh Joshi, head of paediatric surgery, assistant professors Dr Mitesh Bachani and Dr Amrita Patel, assistant professor and gynaecology department's head of the unit Dr Tejas Patel are the ones looking after them. They are going out of their way to ensure the mother and her children don't starve. The victim's brothers have found playmates here. And now they even get to drink milk at the hospital, a luxury which they could not afford at home. "She has no home as such. A protective sigmoid colostomy has been performed on her. Even if she leaves the hospital after three weeks, we are scared that she may develop infection. She will need a closure colostomy to ensure natural urine flow after two months," said a doctor. There are injuries near her ovary which are likely to manifest as Baby Nirbhaya grows up. But what damage it can cause, the doctors cannot say at this point of time.
'I only want her to get well soon'
Civil Hospital 's medical superintendent Dr M M Prabhakar who has ensured that Baby Nirbhaya gets the best treatment told Mirror that the State Women's Commision has also approached the hospital and offered help. Meanwhile, punishment for the accused is not even on the mind of Baby Nirbhaya's mother. "I do not know what the punishment is for such a crime and I am not even thinking about it right now. I thought such things happened only to older women. My girl is just six. I only want her to get well soon." "The statement of the victim's mother was taken in the presence of Mahila Sangathan. Kaushal is the only accused in the case. So, we have arrested him," said A division officer B Z Patel.