A peon of a school in Mumbai was arrested on Saturday for allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl on multiple times inside the premises of the school over the last three months.
The 39-year-old accused is a resident of Lower Parel and has been working in the school for the past few years.
According to an Indian Express report, the police said that the girl was threatened by the accused, which is why she did not tell anyone about the incident.
However, recently she was unable to walk properly following which her family took her to the hospital. The doctors, there told the parents that she was sexually assaulted and after that the girl narrated everything to them.
The officials arrested the accused peon on the basis of her parents’ complaint.
As per police, the peon allegedly took the minor girl to the store room located under the school’s ground floor staircase, beat her up and sexually assaulted her, between December 2023 and March 2024.
The man also allegedly performed unnatural sexual assault on her. Currently, the school management and the police are trying to find out if the accused had targeted other kids as well.
The peon has been charged under IPC Sections 376 (committing rape repeatedly on the same woman), 377 (unnatural sex), 506 (criminal intimidation) and under Section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, among some others.
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