In yet another shocking incident of child abuse in the national Capital, a seven-year-old girl was allegedly molested at her school by a lab assistant in Outer Delhi’s Rohini area on Saturday.
The accused, identified as Harender (40), has been arrested. A case of molestation and various sections of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act have been slapped on him. The accused has also been suspended by the school authorities.
A senior police official said that the incident came to light on Wednesday morning when the victim, a Class III student,revealed her ordeal to her parents who then decided to approach police. “The girl was not going to school for the past few weeks making one excuse or the other. When she again refused to go to school on Wednesday morning, her parents took her into confidence and asked her to reveal what was wrong. She finally broke down and revealed that the lab technician had molested her at least three-four times in the recent past,” said a senior police official.
The girl’s parents then took her to Rohini (South) police station and reported the incident to the police. The victim was given counselling by an NGO in the presence of her mother. Police then registered a complaint on the basis of the victim’s statement and took her to the school where she identified Harended. He was then arrested and produced before a local court which sent it to 14 days judicial custody.
It may be recalled that in a similar incident reported from Rohini in September, a two-and-a-half-year-old girl was allegedly molested by an attendant at her playschool.