In a shocking news, an 11-year-old girl with a hearing disorder was allegedly gang-raped by at least 22 men in Chennai for over 7 months. Police have today arrested 18 men including the security men, lift operator and water suppliers of the society and are searching for others in connection with the case.
An 11-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted over a period of 7 months at various places inside her apartment campus in Chennai,” Police said.
According to police, the Class VII girl was allegedly sedated with injections, drug-laced soft drinks before sexually assaulting her and was videographed. The accused reportedly blackmailed the child for a prolonged period with the threat of releasing the videos and sexually exploited her for months.
Police said the matter came to light after the victim, narrated the sequence of incidents to her elder sister, who later brought this to the notice of their parents, following which a complaint was lodged.
According to the source, the girl told police that elevator operator Ravi Kumar, 66, first sexually assaulted her in an unoccupied flat in the complex. Three days later two men from outside the complex also raped her and videotaped the incident. Other men later joined in Rajiv to sexually assault the child repeatedly.
“The girl’s father was away at work through most of the day. Her mother, a homemaker, did not think anything was amiss when the girl came home late from school. She assumed that her daughter was playing with friends in the complex,” reported a police officer as saying.
The identified suspects include security guards Murugesh, 54, Palani, 40, Abishek, 23, Sugumaran, 60, Prakash, 58, and Umapathy, 42; elevator operators Ravi Kumar, Paramasivam, 60, Dheenadayalan, 50, Srinivasan, 45, and Babu, 36; plumbers Jaiganesh, 23, Raja, 32, Surya, 23, Suresh, 32; an electrician Jayaraman, 26; a housekeeping employee, Rajasekar, 40; and a gardener, Gunasekar, 55.
