Crime

Shocking : 62-Year-Old Sexually Assaulted 3-Year-Old Girl, Arrested

Mumbai: In another shocking incident, a 3-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by a senior citizen in Trichy.  62-year-old accused has been identified as a Rethinam from Senthaneerpuram, has been arrested based on a complaint by the victim’s parents.

According to parents of victim On 6 January, the accused took their child at his home and sexually assaulted her. Later on which the police filed a case under the Prevention of Child Protection Act against sexual assault against Rathinam.

He was booked under the recently revised Section 376 (AB) of the POCSO Act, in which the accused had been recommended rigorous imprisonment for not less than 20 years. The accused was then remanded to judicial custody.

Using a small sample survey, Human Rights Watch projects more than 7,200 minors – 1.6 in 100,000 minors are raped each year in India. Among these, victims who do report the assaults are alleged to suffer mistreatment and humiliation from the police.

According to NCRB 2015 statistics, Madhya Pradesh has the highest raw number of rape reports among Indian states, while Jodhpur in Rajasthan has the highest per capita rate of rape reports in cities followed by Delhi the capital city.

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