A 69-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in southeast Delhi’s Jaitpur area. The girl had been assaulted by the accused on earlier occasions as well but she did not share the incidents with her family. However, she gathered courage to inform her parents when the accused sodomised her again on July. In her complaint, she told the police that the incident took place at her home when she returned home from school in the afternoon of July 3. Her parents and sister were not at home. While she was changing clothes, the victim said, the accused entered her room and forced her on the bed and tried to sexually assault her. However, when the girl started crying and shouting due to the pain the accused got scared. He threatened her with dire consequences if she revealed the incident to anybody, the police said. The girl was quite traumatised after the incident and after her mother returned from work that night, she narrated her ordeal to her, the police added. Her mother approached the police with a complaint on Wednesday. The accused was arrested the same day. The accused and the victim’s family were not known to each other. He had been living on rent in a nearby shanty. Police is also probing whether the accused had targeted any other children in the area.