India: A 10-year-old girl was sold multiple times by her elderly father and stepmother to many unidentified men in the past four years, all of whom raped her.

The girl, who used to stay with her 60-year-old father and 25-year-old stepmother in Loni, was found loitering near the railway station in Jaipur, India in December last year and was handed over to child welfare committee in Ghaziabad by its counterpart in Jaipur.

On Tuesday, the CWC wrote to the police to file an FIR against the girl’s parents, reports the Times of India.
The girl, who is under the constant watch of the CWC, and being given periodic counselling, has many burn injuries on her thighs and legs which, according to her, were inflicted by her father using a hot iron rod.
The minor, who narrated the sordid tale of torture she underwent for several years, also revealed that her father had stolen many children from railway stations and sold them in far-flung areas. Her father, a butcher, had remarried after the death of her mother.
‘The girl has suffered a number of atrocities at the hands of her parents and is in a state of shock.

The girl’s sufferings increased manifold after her father, a butcher, got married for the second time four years ago.

She was beaten at home if she made any mistake in doing household work like cooking and cleaning. Many times, boiling tea was thrown on her,’ said Shalini Singh, a CWC member.