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DNA test shows uncle did not father 10-year-old child's baby in India rape case

The 10-year-old has alleged that her uncle raped her on a number of occasions over a period of months.

A DNA TEST has shown that a man accused of raping his 10-year-old niece on several occasions did not father a baby she gave birth to last month.

The BBC reports that the man, who is in his 40s, has not denied the charges against him and the DNA results have led to suspicions that the girl may have been abused by others.

The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was raped several times allegedly by an uncle who has since been arrested. He has made no statements so far.

“So far no-one had thought of any other possibility. The girl had testified to the court on video conferencing and in her statement, she had very clearly named the uncle and revealed facts about her abuse,” an official involved with the investigation told the BBC today.

In July, her parents asked the country’s top court to allow her to have a late-term abortion but the request was turned down.

Indian law does not allow medical terminations after 20 weeks unless there is a threat to either the life of the mother or her child.

“The surgery was uneventful,” her doctor said at the time of the birth. “There were no complications whatsoever. The baby weighed 2.2 kilos and is in the neonatal ICU for now.”

The Press Trust of India news agency said the girl was unaware that she had delivered a child and the parents had decided to put the baby up for adoption.

Her parents have told her that she had a stone in her stomach and had undergone surgery to remove it, PTI said.

With reporting from AFP

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    Sep 13th 2017, 9:15 PM

    Christ, my skins crawling after reading that.

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    Sep 13th 2017, 9:32 PM

    The “love both” people will be delighted that she gave birth at age 10.

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    Sep 13th 2017, 9:43 PM

    @Baltimore Lass: Here is a disgusting statistic from India ; A child under 10 is raped every 13 hours..

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    Sep 13th 2017, 9:48 PM

    @Baltimore Lass: A cruel comment, nobody irrespective of their position would hold with the rape and resulting pregnancy of a young child, there are two child victims of this horror and whether it was a family member or other, someone is clearly abusing this little girl, all right thinking people would want such criminals apprehended and incarcerated, point scoring over this child’s suffering is in bad taste.

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    Sep 13th 2017, 10:01 PM

    @Honeybee: Don’t be daft.You have so called “pro life” human rights activists in this country,who would fight tooth and nail for that 10 year old,to be forced to give birth…Baltimore Lass is spot on!

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    Sep 13th 2017, 10:05 PM

    @Gerri Sant0r0: Baltimore lass stated people would be ‘delighted’ to see a ten year old give birth, really, you think anyone would be ‘delighted’ at such trauma and abuse?

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    Sep 13th 2017, 10:19 PM

    @Honeybee :Where have you been hiding ? Didn’t you know that once that 10 year old child became pregnant,then she must give birth,according to those that ‘love both’? Marion ,where are you?

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    Sep 13th 2017, 10:37 PM

    @Francis Mc Carthy: Typical of the pro choice side scoring points from a tragedy. Of the c.200000 abortions carried out in GB last year, how many were due to rape and incest? Carry-on making political football out these awful tragedies and show people how really hypocritical the pro choice side is. No ProLife person sees anything here to be celebrated.

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    Sep 13th 2017, 11:01 PM

    Daniel : Do you believe that that 10 year old child should have a choice of ending that pregnancy in Ireland ?

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    Sep 13th 2017, 11:25 PM

    @Daniel Dunne: And to answer your question,I will never know how many were for rape/incest,and the reason for this,is that rape is under-reported.And your lot are not “pro life” ..Your lot are ‘pro-mental torture’ ‘pro forced birth’ ‘pro death’ ..Away with yah.

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    Sep 14th 2017, 12:16 AM

    @Daniel Dunne: They celebrated the incarceration, force feeding and forced caesarian of a rape victim as a “positive outcome”,

    If a 10 year old Irish girl was pregnant, the 8th amendment would force her to give birth. A blunt instrument that tortures women and girls in this country if they can’t afford to travel.

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    Sep 13th 2017, 9:22 PM

    India is a medieval society.

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    Sep 13th 2017, 11:57 PM

    @Emmet Dillane: and Ireland is not

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    Sep 14th 2017, 12:17 AM

    @Emmet Dillane: India would have allowed an abortion up to 20 weeks. Ireland, under the 8th amendment would have forced this child to give birth regardless.

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    Sep 13th 2017, 9:52 PM

    It gets sicker and sicker. This little girl is going to need a lot of help and support. And the men who raped her need to be punished and then a lot more punishment.

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    Sep 13th 2017, 9:32 PM

    That poor little girl … heart goes out to the child

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    Sep 13th 2017, 10:01 PM

    To attempt to fathom the depth of trauma this little girl has gone through is horrifying. I truly hope she is receives the psychological support she will need.
    Cases like these highlight the necessity in stengthening the global campaign against all forms of sexual violence.

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    Sep 13th 2017, 10:12 PM

    “DNA results have led to suspicions that she may have been abused by others”. Looks like Sherlock is on the case.

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    Sep 14th 2017, 12:32 AM

    India really have some the brightest people on this planet but then you hear these stories and think they have also the worst type of people on the planet and a crazy functioning society.

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    Sep 14th 2017, 12:58 PM

    I seem to remember after the whole Savita Halipanavaar story that there were a lot of guest commentators from India in the liberal faction of the Irish media slating Irish healthcare, attitudes and law. We were supposed to be a backward society according to them and yet this kind of thing happens in their backyard all the time with no sign of them now and their ironic comments. It’s only a few months ago that rats got into a baby ward in a hospital in India and ate the face of a new born baby.

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