An eight-month-old girl was raped a week ago in the Indian capital, Delhi. Earlier, news of rape of three-year-old, somewhere 10 or 11-year-old girls came up in the headlines of that country.
And the number of child rapes that are not in the headlines is many times higher.
In 2016 - in one year, about twenty thousand children or adolescents have been raped in India. That's according to the latest figures from India's National Crime Records Bureau.
But it's not just girls who are being raped or sexually harassed.
The only statistic published nearly 10 years ago showed that more than half of all children sexually abused were boys or adolescents.
But social workers say the published figures on child sexual abuse in India are only a fraction of the total.
Cry, a voluntary organization working for children's rights across the country.
Atindranath Das, its Eastern Director, explained, "The incidence of child sexual abuse has been on the rise for almost a decade. But the number has jumped over the last three years. That doesn't mean it hasn't happened before. But the sudden increase . "
There have been a number of recent cases of child rape that have caused a stir.
CCTV footage captured the abduction of an eight-year-old girl in the southern Indian state of Karnataka in 2015. Her body was later found, she was raped in silence with a plastic stick in her mouth.
In addition to rape, about 12,000 girls have been sexually abused, and more than 900 girls have been sexually harassed.
Parmita Banerjee, head of Deeksha, a Kolkata-based voluntary organization, said, "Sexual abuse has been going on before, it is still going on. Something - whatever. Before we girls didn't open our mouths - in fear, in shame, but now we're opening our mouths a little bit. "
Professor Shaswati Ghosh, an activist in the women's movement, also said, "Sexual abuse has increased in absolute numbers, but now the issues are coming to the fore. Everyone, from parents to police, is aware of child protection. It says that 'a child can get away with this!' Now that this perception has changed, many are finding the courage to open up about sexual abuse.
