Bangladesh, May 22 -- The rape and murder of seven-year-old Ramisa Akter - a bright second-grader from Dhaka's Pallabi neighbourhood - has unleashed a torrent of public anguish across the country, with demonstrations erupting in the capital and beyond and demands rising from every corner of society for swift justice and an end to the cycle of impunity in crimes against children.

Ramisa, a top student of Class 2 at Popular Model High School, was found dead on Tuesday

morning after going missing from her family's apartment in Section 11 of Pallabi.

Police recovered her decapitated body from a neighbouring flat at around 11:00am. She had been raped and killed on 19 May.

The main suspect, neighbour Sohel Rana, 30, was detained by Mirpur D...