Nartana

• A battered six-year-old has nowhere to go

  A minor fracture in her skull is just one of the many injuries inflicted upon six-year-old Nartana by her mother. The child was moved from a government hospital in Andhra Pradesh's Nellore district to a hospital in Chennai for specialised care."She suffers from multiple injuries of various ages perpetrated on he including a liver injury," says Dr B...

• Mother used hot iron rods, blade to 'Discipline' child

  Six-year-old Nartana is in hospital, her tiny body the battered landscape of an array of injuries - burns thought to have been inflicted with a hot iron rod, cuts wielded by a blade, and bruises from flogging. She can barely speak. Doctors say it's not just her pain that's keeping her silent. She's also in shock.Her assaulter is her mother - who is...