Saviour turns predator
When she was raped by her cousin and his friend, the family of the 12-year-old girl took shelter in the house where her father used to work as a day labourer.
Sarwar Ahmed, 38, the employer of her father, assured him he would help the family get justice and took the girl to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital where tests proved she was raped.
Apparently feeling safe and secure, the father did not understand he had jumped out of a frying pan into the fire, until he learnt that Sarwar himself started raping her daughter.
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested Sarwar early yesterday, after raiding his house in Beanibazar upazila of Sylhet.
Talking to The Daily Star, the father said he and his wife left their village home in Kanaighat upazila in August last year after their elder son was implicated in a "false murder case" over a land dispute and took shelter in Sarwar's house.
The girl was left at the village with relatives, and the son was absconding.
In April this year, he came to know that Jamir Uddin, son of his cousin, and Azir Uddin, a friend of Jamir, raped his daughter at least three times. Shortly after the revelations, the father brought her to Sarwar's house.
Mayeen Uddin Chowdhury, senior assistant superintendent of police, said, "In primary investigation, we found evidence of rape."
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