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A five-year-old girl was found in an unconscious condition after she was apparently raped and abandoned as dead on the outskirts of
Deori on Thursday. However, a young couple found her and took her to Deori police station, from where she was shifted to Gondia's Ladies Hospital.

Bhageshri Thakur, the mother of the five-year-old, said that she, her husband and three children live in a village Bhankheda near Amravati, and the family had gone to Raipur a few days back. On October 15, when they were returning home by truck, the driver left them quite some distance away from Deori bus stop on Nagpur-Raipur highway. The couple took their two younger children with them while they went to inquire about some transport. The couple had left their luggage at that spot and asked their elder daughter to keep a watch on the luggage.

When they returned after some time, they were stunned to see that their luggage was there but not the daughter. They searched for her in the darkness but could not find her anywhere nearby. The couple then approached Deori police station, and even as they were telling their story to the cops, a young couple came there with an unconscious child who had been abandoned behind their house on Deori-Gondia road. The child turned out to be the Thakur family's daughter. She was unconscious and was bleeding profusely.

The girl was immediately taken to Deori PHC, where she was given first aid and then shifted to the Bai Gangabai Hosital for Women at Gondia, where she is improving. Bhageshri said that she has seen two extreme ends of human nature in one night, one the inhuman person who raped her daughter and the couple which rescued her and took her to the police station.

The victim had been discovered behind their house by Prof Bandoo Nawadawane and Prof Varsha Nawadawane, who live on Gondia Road in Deori. When they saw the unconscious child behind their house they tried to contact Deori police but did not succeed. So they personally took her to the police station.

Some social workers from Gondia like Prof Sawita Bedarkar, Asha Nagpure, Rekha Bhongade, Yashodhara Sonwane and Deepa Kashikar are helping the victim's family financially.