Bhopal/IBNS, Feb. 27 -- A five-year-old in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior is battling for her life after she was raped, bitten and her head slammed against a wall several times, media reports said.

Doctors at Gwalior's Kamala Raja Hospital said she needed 28 stitches in her private parts and an operation for colostomy.

The accused is a 17-year-old who has been arrested and is being tried as a juvenile, the police said.

Apart from the head injuries, the victim's body and private parts bore multiple cuts, scratches, and bite marks.

The child, a resident of Shivpuri, had gone missing on Feb 23.

She was found almost two hours later on the terrace of a house in the neighbourhood, unconscious and covered in blood.

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