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Father held for sexually abusing teen

The Vikhroli police traced the teen and reunited her with her family

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The father of a 17-year-old girl was arrested on Wednesday after the teenager, who had run away from their Parksite home in Vikhroli last Friday, revealed to the police that she had fled because she was being sexually assaulted by him for the past five years.

The Vikhroli police traced the teen and reunited her with her family.

According to the police, the victim did not return home from her night college on Friday and her father approached the Vikhroli police station and lodged a missing person's complaint. The police started questioning her friends and found out through one of them that she was in Bengaluru.

She was not carrying her cellphone and made calls to her friend from a public booth. The police enlisted the friend's help and managed to speak to her and asked her to return. But the minor refused.

"We counselled her and took her into confidence. We assured her she would not be forced to do anything if she returned to Mumbai. She finally agreed. When she got here we asked her if she wanted to meet her father, but she broke down and narrated her ordeal to a lady officer. She said he had been assaulting her and her sister, now married, for the past five years," said a police officer.

The victim told the police that her father had threatened her and her mother into silence. "She couldn't take it and ran away on Friday. She boarded a bus to Bengaluru after college," said a police officer.

"After hearing her ordeal, we immediately registered a case against her father under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) charges and arrested him. The case is being investigated by the Parksite police station," said Sanjay More, senior inspector, Vikhroli police station.

MONSTER DAD

  • The 17-yr-old did not return home from her night college on Friday
     
  • Her father lodged a missing person’s complaint with police 
     
  • Cops learned she had fled from home as she wanted to escape abuse  
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