4-year-old killed after rape
A four-year-old girl was killed after being raped allegedly by a neighbour in Chuadanga’s Damurhuda upazila on Saturday night.
Police recovered the body ofSumaiya Khatun from an orchard near her home in Parkrishnapur area around 11:00pm.
Mominul Haque, 28, a landless farmer of the same village, was arrested yesterday. He later told police that he had choked the toddler to death after raping her, said Sukumar Biswas, officer-in-charge of Damurhuda Model Police Station.
He added that officers were interrogating the suspect and more would be known about him later.
Sumaiya’s father Nasir Uddin, a carpenter, said his daughter came home from school around 12:00pm on Saturday and left home to play in the neighbourhood shortly afterwards.
As she had not returned home after several hours, her parents started looking for her around 4:30pm and called the police later that night, Nasir said.
A team of police and villagers then found her body in the orchard, he added.
Her body was sent to Chuadanga Sadar Hospital morgue for an autopsy.
Nasir filed a case with Damurhuda Model Police Station yesterday afternoon.
Meanwhile, a three-and-half-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a teenager in the city’s Bosila area yesterday afternoon, reports our staff correspondent.
The victim was sent to one-stop crisis centre at Dhaka Medical College Hospital for treatment and tests.
Police detained the 14-year-old boy, an employee of a shop, in that area after victim’s family filed a complained with police, said Sub-Inspector Altaf Hossain of Mohammadpur Police Station.
Quoting the victim’s family, the police officer said the accused lured the girl with chocolate into his shop around 12:30pm and raped her.
Learning about the incident, the family detained the shop employee and informed police, he said.
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