Wednesday, September 19, 2018

For 8 mths, trio raped girl with learning difficulties

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Chennai:19.09.2018

Police have arrested three men including a senior citizen for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl with learning difficulties in Guduvancherry over an eight-month period, leaving her five months pregnant and hospitalized with physical and mental trauma.

The perpetrators of the crime — the second gang rape of a city girl with disabilities reported to police in two months — Paramasivam, 65, and fellow construction workers Chidambaram, 40, and Sankar, 50, were all from Karanai Puducherry near Vandalur, an investigating officer said.

“They repeatedly raped the girl when she was alone at home,” he said. “The girl complained of abdominal pain a few days ago and her grandmother took her to a primary health centre nearby. Doctors there examined the girl and discovered that she had been raped and was pregnant.”

The grandmother, a daily wager worker, lodged a complaint with the Guduvancherry police, who later forwarded the case to the Chengalpet all-women police for further investigation. Doctors referred the girl to Chengalpet Government Hospital.

Investigators interviewed the girl, who revealed the names of her tormentors.

“Paramasivam first spotted the girl when an asbestos-roofing job took him to Arungal, Guduvancherry, where the girl lived,” the officer said. “He befriended the girl, whose parents had left her in the care of her grandmother, and sexually assaulted her.”

When Chidambaram and Sankar learned what Paramsivam had done, they threatened to expose Paramasivam unless he allowed them to join in the sexual abuse of the teen.

The officer said the men would show up on the pretext of doing work in Arungal and repeatedly rape the girl. “The girl did not report the crime and this encouraged them to continue to abuse her.”

Police charged the three men under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act. A magistrate’s court in the city remanded them in judicial custody.

Police announced on July 16 that at least 20 men including security guards, plumbers and carpenters raped an 11-year-old schoolgirl with a hearing disorder in an apartment complex in Purasawalkam for more than seven months.


The gang left the 16-year-old girl five months pregnant and hospitalized with physical and mental trauma

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