8-year-old girl raped and murdered by three school leavers

In the Nandyala district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, an eight-year-old girl was raped and then killed by three of her classmates aged twelve and thirteen, according to authorities.

The police were informed by the three juvenile suspects currently in custody that they had dumped the girl’s body in an irrigation canal. The incident was reported over 300 kilometers from the Andhra capital Amaravati, Muchumarri. The girl’s body has not been found so far.

The missing third-grader’s father reported her missing to local police on Sunday. Although she did not return home later, he told police that the girl was playing in Muchumarri Park. Police searched the area and spoke to locals but were unable to locate her.

The police were alerted to the three underage boys by a sniffer dog. Two of them are 12 years old and in the 6th grade, one is 13 years old and in the 7th grade. The girl attended the same school as all three. According to authorities, the boys confessed during questioning to raping and killing the girl.

The suspects admitted to authorities that they joined in after seeing the girl playing in the park. They then took her to a secluded spot near Muchumarri Dam where they took turns raping her. The boys have told authorities that they killed the girl and dumped her body in the nearby canal because they were afraid of getting in trouble if the girl informed her parents about the assault.

Sub-Inspector Jayshekhar of Muchumarri police station said the case was still being treated as a missing person case as the girl’s body had not been found yet.