Tamil Nadu: 15-yr-old girl raped, impregnated; seven arrested
The shameful incident, ten people, including four students at Tamil Nadu gang-raped and impregnated a class 9 girl student. Police have already charged all the seven suspects. The 15-year-old victim was studying at a government-assisted school, and since 10 men have consistently gang-raped 2016.
Updated: Apr 14, 2020 14:44 IST
|Niranjani Jesentha Kumari Prabagararaj
|Three other boys were put in Avinashi Sub-Jail
The girl has reportedly become friends with a student and later fell in love with him. The girl was then repeatedly raped by her friend. However, the study suggests the girl later became friends with three other boys who raped her too. Six other boys from her neighborhood subsequently joined the accused in sexually assaulting the girl whose parents are construction workers.
The girl had not reported the violence to her parents all this time. When the parents heard about her pregnancy, she was taken to a private Neelambur hospital for abortion.
The hospital officials, however, refused to abort the foetus and told them to go to Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital, where she had been admitted. Yet on Saturday, the girl was missing from the hospital. Later the hospital told the police who were tracing the girl by night. The 15-year-old girl told police during the investigation that she was repeatedly raped by 10 persons, including four students.
The police have filed a case under the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act, 2012 after the girl's complaint, and arrested the seven accused. The accused students were sent to a juvenile home at the junction of Lakshmi Mills while three other boys were lodged in Avinashi sub-jail.