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TERRlBLE! New Born Baby Stabbed 100 Times and Dumped in a Temple

Thompson Nsisongabasi

Oct 05, 2020

A two-day-old baby girl was stabbed 100 times with a screwdriver and then dumped at a temple amid a spate of newborn murders.

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Police were called to reports of a baby wrapped in a blanket early lying next to a temple in Bhopal, India, on Thursday, September 24.

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Investigators first thought the baby had been savaged in an animal attack before an autopsy proved her wounds to be consistent with a screwdriver.

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CCTV is now being used in the area to track down the killer following a series of female infanticide in India.

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The child is believed to have been born at home just two days before the shocking murder, and is one of three baby killings in the last week.

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In India, the male-female birth ratio, the ratio of boys to girls in younger age groups, is used to support claims female infanticide to be an under-reported phenomenon.

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The national ratio in India is estimated to be at 1.11 in comparison to 1.05 in the United Kingdom and United States.

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A natural ratio is said to be 106, with a range of between 103 and 107.

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Any number higher than 107 suggests that infanticide or abortions have skewed the proportion of males in a population.

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In July 2019, officials in a northern India state investigated whether sex-selective abortions or infanticide had been conducted.

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Government data revealed not a single girl was born in 132 village in three months.

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The Uttarkashi district administration marked the 132 villages as a "red zone" and a team of 25 officials has been formed to investigate the matter.

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Activist and academic, Nivedita Menon, said: "This is completely unheard of that for three months, no girl child was born in so many villages.

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"There must have been some process by which sex determination was done illegally and abortions were carried out."

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