Indian boy, 7, found murdered with his eyes and tongue cut out after fighting off paedo rapist
Purshotam Kumar was lured from his home with chocolate and horrifically murdered
AN INDIAN boy was found murdered with his eyes and tongue cut out after fighting off a paedophile rapist.
The monster lured seven-year-old Purshotam Kumar away from his home with chocolate and strangled him when he resisted his sick advances.
The boy was playing outside his parents' home in Delhi's Harkesh Nagar slum as his mum prepared dinner.
Mum Puja Devi recalled: "I was shouting, checking he was ok and he kept saying ‘I’m just here mamma’ but then all of a sudden he was gone.
"I called him but no reply. I stepped outside but I couldn’t see him.
"I called his name, searched for him. And them some neighbours said he’d gone with him."
The 25-year-old housemaid told how she and her husband Rakesh Kumar, 27, trawled the streets but were unable to find him.
The next day their neighbour Sandeep Singh, 21, was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, murder and sexual assault, and admitted to all charges.
Police said Singh was a well-known drink and drug addict and his family had disowned him.
Three days after his disappearance on April 2, officers found the mutilated body of their son two minutes away from their home, surrounded by rubbish.
Rakesh’s brother Gopal, 18, said his nephew was unrecognisable.
He said: "He had slash marks all over his body.
"His face wasn’t even recognisable but we could see enough to know it was our Purshotam.
"His body had been mutilated. It was gruesome."
That evening the family cremated their beloved boy in a traditional Hindu burial.
Puja said: "We had no fight with anyone. Why would he do this to my son, my family?
"We are left broken. I don’t know what to do with myself now. His little sister keeps asking for her brother, ‘when will bhai (brother) be back?’, I tell her he’s died, but she refuses to accept it and tells me to get him.
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The distraught parents added: "I haven’t gone back to work yet, I’m just numb. I can’t do anything with myself.
"I keep going over that day and wondering if I could have done anything differently. I knew there were bad men here, we’re in a city so of course there are bad men.
"I used to walk him to and from school, never left him alone. But still, this happened to us."
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