A three-year-old girl who was sexually and physically tortured by her mother's employer died at SKMM hospital in Kolkata today.

The child,a resident of West Bengal's Purulia district, was brought in a critical and serious condition to the hospital on July 15.

The doctors and surgeons delayed the surgery and operation as the child wasn't stable.

"There are as many as seven needles forced into the child's body. The needles could not be taken out as it may cause further damage to her body. She is kept under observation," hospital commented on her initial state.

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The incident of abuse and torture came to light after her mother took her to Bankura Medical College with a complaint of fever.

The doctors there discovered that the child was brutally abused by someone and several needles were injected in her body.

There were multiple external injuries and some even on her private parts which were caused by the needles.

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Police reports suggest that a former home guard, Sanatan Thakur, in his mid '50s practiced black magic. He employed the child's mother as domestic worker and used the child as a voodoo doll. He abused her body for the practice of his black magic.

On July 18, doctors successfully got rid of all the seven needles from her body and the little girl was kept under observation.

But today, hospital declared her dead. "She succumbed to sepsis and pneumonia between 2 am and 3 am," the source from hospital said.

Police have a lodged a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POSCO) Act against Sanatan Thakur who is on a run and still at large.

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