On Christmas Day, a two-and-a-half-year-old girl died in Vadodara, a city in the Indian prov – ince of Gujarat. She was found in a “thorny bush”, the Hindustan Times reported, where she had allegedly been left by her maternal uncle. He is accused of throwing her away, like rubbish, after he had raped her.
The man is now in custody, awaiting trial on murder charges.
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