Chennai Police arrests school peon for sexually abusing 5-year-old girl on campus
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Chennai Police arrested Raj, a 38-year-old man, working as a peon in a private school, for sexually abusing a five-year-old girl on campus, when she had gone to the washroom. Police arrested him and are probing if he sexually assaulted any other children in the school.
Chennai Police arrested a 38-year-old man for sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl inside the premises of a private school where he worked as a peon.
The accused, identified as Raj, reportedly lives in the same neighbourhood where the school is located, reported the Times of India. Police arrested Raj on Monday, July 11.
The crime was discovered after the victim told her parents she was having stomach pains. Even after taking her to a doctor, the minor girl, for a week, began making excuses to skip school.
On Monday, July 11, when her parents tried to send her to school, she refused to go and began to cry. “She did not tell her parents why she didn’t want to go to school. She just kept crying and told her parents that she was scared to go,” said a police officer who investigated the case.
The victim’s parents, who assumed that she was scared of assignments, continued to persuade the girl to tell them why she didn’t want to go to school.
After a while, the five-year-old girl confided in her mother about the sexual abuse. “The peon had touched her inappropriately when she had gone to the washroom eight days ago. She was scared that it would happen again,” said the officer.
Shocked upon hearing this, the child’s mother approached the school authorities and lodged a complaint with the police. A case was registered under Section 8 of the POCSO Act and the accused, Raj, was arrested. He was remanded to judicial custody on Tuesday.
