Even after several reports over the failure of authorities in State-run residential schools to curb the rise in sexual abuse of girl students, another schoolgirl has been found pregnant in Mayurbhanj district.
The incident came to the fore after the victim, a Class-VI student of the Mohanpur Ashram School under the Morada police station, was admitted to the Pandit Raghunath Murmu Medical College Hospital here.
According to reports, the girl was hospitalised on Monday night after her condition deteriorated at the residential school hostel. Following an ultrasound conducted on her, doctors informed that she was pregnant.
Police detained a boy student of the same class after the school authorities lodged a complaint on Wednesday.
Earlier, such residential school shame had been reported from Dhenkanal and Kalahandi districts where two girls were impregnated.
A few days ago, a minor girl student delivered a baby at a residential school in the Daringbadi area of Kandhamal district that created a huge uproar in the State.