Battered baby still critical, doctors say no sexual abuse

New Delhi: The battered two-year-old baby at AIIMS today showed no signs of improvement, with forensic experts at the hospital trying to find out if the marks on her body were human bites. Even as she entered the eleventh day of her admission to the Intensive Care Unit of Jai Prakash Narayan AIIMS Trauma Centre, the baby has shown no change in physical condition since Friday and continues to remain critical. [caption id=“attachment_196726” align=“alignleft” width=“380” caption=“Screengrab from CNN IBN”] [/caption] “There is no change in her condition. It is the same as yesterday. She is stable but critical and deeply unconscious,” Dr Deepak Agarwal a neurosurgeon with the hospital attending the child said. “She has been put off ventilatory support and doctors have conducted a tracheostomy on the baby who is being fed through a pipe that goes via the nose”, he added. The baby was brought to the hospital in a bitten and battered state on 18 January. Her head had severe injuries, both her arms were broken, there were bite marks all over her body and her cheeks branded with hot iron. She was brought to the hospital by a teenage girl who claimed to be her mother and had cited a fall from the bed as the reason for the child’s state. Dr Agarwal said that gynaecologist reports confirmed there was no sexual abuse. “The marks on her body seem like that of human bites. To verify this, we called in our forensic experts. They will analyse and let us now,” Dr Agarwal said. PTI