- By Nidhi Giri
- Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:02 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
Kerala: Three ayahs, or nursemaids were arrested at a government children’s home in Thiruvananthapuram on charges of assaulting a two-and-a-half-year-old girl by inflicting injuries on her vaginal area, as punishment for wetting the bed while sleeping, police said.
The children’s home is run by the Kerala State Council for Child Welfare. The arrest came on Tuesday after fingernail marks were found in the private parts of the girl, according to police.
Police said they were told about the injuries by a hospital, where the child was taken for an unrelated issue. They said the injury marks are about seven to eight days old.
They further said an investigation was conducted after the hospital reported the issue. They found that the caretakers had injured the girl as the child had wet her bed while sleeping.
Trivandrum city police commissioner G Sparjan Kumar said: “The three ayahs (nursemaids) were arrested under relevant sections of POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act and Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act."
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In another unrelated incident, in August, a First Information Report (FIR) was registered against a 37-year-old man in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut district for sexually assaulted several children and young adults in a village and making videos of the act to blackmail them later for money, police said. The man ran a grocery store in the village.
The accused identified as Ajit Chauhan, targetted those who came to his store to buy goods, as per locals . He would offer the victims drinks laced with intoxicants, sexually abuse them and film the act, they added. He then used the videos to blackmail the children and extort money from them by threatening to make the videos public.