NEW DELHI CHILD RAPE PROTESTS

NEW DELHI, A woman activist of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party crosses a police barricade near the residence of ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi during a protest against the recent rape of a five-year-old girl in New Delhi, India, April 21, 2013. The victim was abducted and raped by her 25-year-old neighbor on April 15, and then locked and left to die by the accused, who has been arrested by the police from the eastern state of Bihar after much hue and cry by the protesters. ..HOTSPOT MEDIA

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