MP: Mandsaur gang rape survivor talks music with counsellor

INDORE: The seven-year-old

Mandsaur girl

, who survived having her throat being slit and intestines ruptured in a horrific gang-rape and torture, is showing doctors and counsellors just how tough she is.

She is talking — not about the terrifying

ordeal

, but about her favourite

TV shows

, music, her best friends and how she misses playing with them. Psychologists who spoke to the child on Sunday came away amazed by her courage and composure.

In a 30-minute meeting with Dr Swati Prasad and Dr Bhaskar Prasad, the girl and her parents spoke about many things, but the gruesome crime that shook their lives and shocked the nation was not brought up.

In her first counselling session, she spoke to Swati and said how much she missed her favorite television serials in hospital. “We will gradually start speaking to her about everything. We cannot speak to her about the incident right now,” she said.

‘She can tell her likes, dislikes’

The psychologists are pleasantly surprised that she isn’t showing signs of psychological trauma. “She is able to speak and told me about her likes and dislikes. She told me about her favourite serials and songs. She would not have been able to speak about all this if she was in trauma. It is a very positive indication that she is mentally stable. We will have to work on the child at a later stage but for now, she is out of danger, both physically and mentally,” said Bhaskar.

He told her parents how important it is for them to hold her back and stay calm at this point. Constant support and approval will her recover faster, they advised.