Class VII Girl Raped By 22 For 7 Months In Chennai, 18 Held
Class VII Girl Raped By 22 For 7 Months In Chennai, 18 Held A 12-year-old girl raped by at least 22 men including security guards, elevator operators and plumbers at an apartment complex in Purasawalkam here. Class VII girl with a hearing disorder was raped for more than seven months. 18 of the suspects have been arrested by the investigators and are searching for the rest involved this horrific crime. Investigator officer told that the suspects used to sedate the victim with injections, drugged soft drinks or made here sniff a powder before sexually assaulting her. They made videos of the act and then blackmailed the child into silence. They threaten the victim of releasing the videos and also with violence. The investigator officer said, “This continued till the girl on Saturday told her older sister, a college student on a visit home from Delhi, about the trauma she was going through. The sister informed their parents, who filed a complaint with the Ayanavaram all women police.” The suspects arrested in the crime were all employees FOCUS, a security firm, and UK Facility Services, Chennai. The officer said, “The girl’s father was away at work through most of the day, her mother, a homemaker, did not think anything was amiss when the girl came home late from school. She assumed that her daughter was playing with friends in the complex.” Victim’s parents took her to Kilpauk Medical College and Hospital for treatment on Sunday. After examining and speaking to the girl, doctors at the hospital found that several men had raped her. On Monday police has recorded her statement in a Mahila court after arresting 18 suspects and charging them under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act. Investigator Officer said, “We have sent seized syringes and an empty soft drink bottle to the forensic laboratory to determine what drugs they used.” The suspects have been identified as security guards Murugesh, 54, Palani, 40, Abishek, 23, Sugumaran, 60, Prakash, 58, and Umapathy, 42; elevator operators Ravi Kumar, Paramasivam, 60, Dheenadayalan, 50, Srinivasan, 45, and Babu, 36; plumbers Jaiganesh, 23, Raja, 32, Surya, 23, Suresh, 32; an electrician Jayaraman, 26; a housekeeping employee, Rajasekar, 40; and a gardener, Gunasekar, 55. -PTC News
