Toddler Attacked With Acid

A TODDLER in India has been the victim of an acid attack after his mother refused a marriage proposal.

A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy in India has tragically suffered burns to half his face after his mother’s stalker kidnapped him and attacked him with acid.

Little Aditya Raj has been in hospital for three weeks battling severe burns to his face, shoulders, and hands. He was kidnapped for 24 hours before he was found dumped in a bin with acid burns to half his face, and now risks losing his eye sight in one eye.

Mother Soni Prasad, 25, says, “I haven’t seen my son yet, I can’t look at him. I’m devastated. I cannot believe my son has suffered this way. I do not know what to do. He is my only son and I’m still in shock. I am just helpless.”

Soni first told her husband, Jamna Prasad, 33, a daily labourer, that a local man had been harassing her earlier last year.

A man called Mangal, aged 27, would constantly ask Soni to marry him and verbally attempt to persuade her to leave her husband. 

Soni says, “He wanted me to leave my husband and marry him. I kept refusing his offer but he never stopped. He was very intimidating. I feared he would do something to me when my husband was away at work.”

Worried of his intentions, Soni and Jamna decided to move and in July last year they started a new life in Shanti Nagar, in Gurugram, New Delhi, in a bid to escape the constant harassment.