Asifa Bano, an 8 year old girl.

On the morning of 17 January, Muhammad Yusuf Pujwala (the father of Asia Bano( was sitting outside his home in Kathua, Kashmir, when one of his neighbours came sprinting towards him. He told Muhammed Pujwala, they had found his eight-year-old daughter, Asifa Bano. Her body was found in the bushes of a forest.

The 8 year old’s legs were broken. Her fingers were black and blue. Asifa was confined in a local temple for several days and given sedatives that kept her unconscious. The charge sheet alleges that she was "raped for days, tortured and then finally murdered". She was strangled to death and then hit on the head twice with a stone.

The worst thing is, she isn’t the only girl and she won't be the last.

Footnotes:

Asifa Bano: The child rape and murder that has Kashmir on edge