Girl critical after being raped and beaten with hammer

AN 11-year-old girl, who was raped and beaten with a hammer after being snatched from her bedroom, was in critical condition yesterday following nine hours of surgery.

Doctors said every bone in the middle of her face had been broken.

Police in Salt Lake City, Utah, arrested Javier Sickler, a former high school classmate of the girl’s father, after finding him attacking the girl outside her home.