In a shocking incident, a four-and-a-half-year-old girl, an lKG student of a private school in Parakkadavu, Nadapuram near Vadakara in Kerala’s Kozhikode district, has allegedly been sexually assaulted by two students of the high school section of the same school. The incident had taken place on October 30, the police said.
The two senior students had sexually abused the girl at their hostel after taking her there forcibly from near the school’s toilets on the afternoon of October 30. Nearly 80 students were staying at the hostel. The girl, currently undergoing treatment at a hospital, said that she could identify her tormentors.
The child had not told the parents about the incident the day it took place. It was on November 7 the doctors at a hospital in Thalassery, Kannur, where she was taken after developing physical problems, found during medical examination that she could have been sexually abused. The doctors informed the police.
Relatives of the girl said that the school management was not prepared to take the matter seriously when they complained. They lodged a complaint with the police station at Valayam near Nadapuram where a case was registered under Section 376 of the IPC and relevant provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.
The case was later handed over to Circle Inspector AS Suresh Kumar of the Nadapuram police station. On Tuesday, the Child Rights Commission sought a report on the incident from the Nadapuram Circle Inspector and the Superintendent of Police (Rural), Vadakara. The girl’s relatives and local people held a protest on Tuesday against the school authorities over their failure to take action against the culprits. Several youth outfits also took out protest marches to the school.