Rape of 4-yr-Old: Rapist killed her 'because she screamed'
The rapist strangled four-year-old Tanha Akter as he failed to stop her screaming and saw her bleeding.
Following his arrest, lone accused Md Shipon, 35, told detectives the horrifying tale of how he had committed the crime before dumping the body of the minor girl in a toilet in the capital's Badda on Sunday evening.
A team of serious crime unit and north division of the Detective Branch (DB) of police made the arrest around 1.00am yesterday, within six hours after the incident, said Abdul Baten, joint commissioner of DB police.
During his interrogation, Shipon said he had enticed the girl into his room by offering chocolates and then raped her. As she began screaming, he strangled her to death and dumped the body in the toilet.
The victim's family lives at Adarshanagar, close to the tin-shed house rented by Shipon and his wife.
The couple have a 11-year-old daughter who lives in Bhola. Whenever she came to Dhaka, Tanha used to play with her, said victim's cousin Akram Hossain.
Some 10 to 12 rooms rented by families are there in one plot where Shipon resides. They share one toilet.
On the day of the incident, Tanha's father Mehedi Hasan, who is a private car driver, left home early morning for work just like any other day, Akram said.
Tanha's another neighbour Jaheda Akter Koly was shifting to another room that day. Around 5:00pm, Tanha told her mother she was going to help her Koly aunty. An hour later, a woman holding Tanha's body came out of the toilet and cried out.
“At first, we thought she might have fallen from the rooftop, but on the way to hospital we found her bleeding and black mark around her throat,” Akram said. Doctors declared her dead on arrival at the hospital.
On information, police raided the rooms and found a towel with stains of blood under the bed of Shipon. Later, his T-shirt and lungi were found inside a bucket with blood stains.
DB Joint Commissioner Baten said Shipon had recently been working as a day labourer, but he had records of serving five years in jail in a robbery case filed with Chawkbazar Police Station.
“We have already seized the clothes and other evidence against Siphon. He also admitted his involvement but we will interrogate him more regarding his actual profession and activities.
“We really feel shame to identify Shipon as a human being. We will try to ensure his exemplary punishment,” Baten added.
Tanha's mother Sultana Begum recently left her job at a garment factory to take care of her only daughter. Ever since she learnt about the death of her beloved child, she was losing consciousness again and again.
An autopsy of Tanha's body was conducted at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday. She will be buried at her native village Jamalpur, family said.
Meanwhile, a Dhaka court placed Shipon on six-day remand for interrogation.
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