The Sickopath

A five-year-old is fighting for life at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi. Grievously injured, she lives to see another day. A thousand kilometres away, in Nagpur, another four-year-old is lying in a coma in a hospital Intensive Care Unit. She lies tethered to a ventilator, with a broken body and serious brain injury. Raped brutally on April 15 and 17, respectively, their little lives have rocked the nation and raised a painful question: Is this no country for children?

Beware the dark underbelly of a nation in transition. Coming out of the woodwork is a shadowy figure, a predator who weaves perverse sexual fantasies on easy prey, children. He is not just any criminal. Nor is he yet another rapist. He is more of a next-door neighbour, a relative or a family friend, who looks perfectly normal until the day he decides to strike.

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