Four-year-old sexually assaulted

A four-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by an unidentified person outside her temporary shed in Subramanyapura on Sunday night.

The police said the victim stayed with her parents, who are daily wage workers from Yadgir district, in a roadside makeshift house with other workers. On Sunday night the victim had stepped out in the middle of the night to attend nature's call when some unidentified person sexually assaulted her. The next morning her mother found she was bleeding and took her to the hospital. The doctors confirmed sexual assault and immediately alerted the police.

The police rushed to the spot and took her parents statement. They are waiting for the victim to recover from her injuries and the shock of the assault to provide her counseling and find more details of the incident. The police are also looking at the CCTV footage in the area.