Raped over 4 years, girl puts attacker in jail

TNN | Updated: Nov 27, 2017, 06:48 IST

CHENNAI: Raped and blackmailed for four years starting from age 13, a 17-year-old girl from Periamet finally found some measure of justice on Sunday when the city police arrested one of her two tormentors.

Investigators arrested 21-year-old G Ravinder Sharma, a friend of the main suspect, identified only Moni, also 21, who befriended the girl on Facebook in 2013 before he sexually assaulted her.

Moni, a resident of Sowcarpet, used compromising videos of them together to repeatedly rape the girl, coerce her into a relationship with Ravinder and force her to pay him Rs 1.5 lakh over a four-year period, an investigating officer said.

"Moni is on the run," he said. "We have launched a search for him."

The girl's family only recently discovered what had been happening, after she revealed that she was pregnant and her father lodged a police complaint.

"Moni misused the girl's trust after they established a relationship online and then met in person," the officer said. "He recorded videos on his cellphone of them together and threatened to put the clips online."

Moni not only demanded that the girl make herself available whenever he called, but also pressured her to sell her gold jewellery and steal money from her parents. They met in a rundown hotel in Periamet, where he collected the cash and forced himself on her.

"Moni in 2016 introduced her to his friend Ravinder, a resident of Vyasarpadi," the officer said. "The girl refused to have anything to do with his friend, but Moni used the videos to threaten her and Ravinder also raped her."

When the girl informed Moni and Ravinder a few weeks ago that she was pregnant, they tried to get her to abort the child. They also demanded Rs 5 lakh to delete the videos that Moni had filmed.

"She recently learned that Ravinder had married and informed his father about the agony that his son had put her through," the officer said. "Ravinder's father said his son's wedding had taken place on November 10 and she could only be his 'second wife.'"

The girl then confided in her parents.