5,000 children raped, 1,408 murdered in India

According to National Crime Records Bureau data, at least 10,670 children were also kidnapped or abducted during the year in various states and union territories of the country.In Uttar Pradesh, as many as 315 children were killed while about 1,182 children were sexually assaulted in Madhya Pradesh during the period -- the highest in the two categories of crimes.There were at least 211 incidents of murder of children in Maharashtra, another as many as 200 such cases in Bihar and about 124 victims in Madhya Pradesh, it said.Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh recorded as many as 747, 451 and 446 cases of sexual assault respectively in the last year. Similarly, 382 and 369 such incidents came to light in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.In Delhi, at least 29 children were murdered and 304 others were raped in 2010.The national capital has reported the highest number of kidnapping of children in the country -- 2,982, followed by Bihar 1,359, Uttar Pradesh 1,225, Maharashtra 749, Rajasthan 706, Andhra Pradesh 581 and Gujarat 565.