DNA tests show second uncle impregnated 10-year-old rape victim

A 10-year-old Indian rape victim who gave birth in August was raped by two of her uncles, police said. Police in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh will file charges against the second suspect, the younger brother of the uncle already charged with rape. The search for a second suspect was initiated after forensic tests failed to show a match between the DNA of the girl’s baby and samples taken from the first uncle. “We got the baby’s DNA tested by our forensic department, and it matched the (sample taken from the) second uncle,” Neelambari Jagadale, senior superintendent of Chandigarh police, told CNN. The second uncle was arrested September 19 after the girl named him during a counseling session. Jagadale said that police were now “working on completing the charge sheets for the second accused.” A court case against the first uncle is currently underway. Both men, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will remain in police custody. The girl gave birth to a daughter via cesarean section August 18 at the Government Medical College and Hospital in Chandigarh. She had the baby after India’s Supreme Court rejected the family’s plea for an abortion in July, based on the opinions of eight doctors and an examination of the girl. Under India’s Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, the country does not permit abortion beyond the first 20 weeks of pregnancy unless the individual is granted special permission from the courts. The girl’s family did not approach the authorities about the pregnancy until the 26th or 27th week, Alakh Alok Srivastava, the attorney who represented the family, told CNN during a previous interview. The girl’s doctor told CNN that she was unaware she was pregnant. Her parents told her she needed surgery for a kidney stone problem, and refused to allow medical professionals to tell their child the truth, said her doctor, who did not wish to be named.

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