Raped teenage girl stops going to school

Fearing public humiliation, a teenage girl, who was raped about five months ago, has finally stopped going to school.
The victim is a student of Class IX at a local high school in Nazirpur upazila, said family sources.
“On February 16, I went to a house following a call from the sister-in-law of local affluent person Swapan Kumer Majumder, 38, and was raped by him,” said the girl, adding that after a month of the incident, her mother came to know the matter as she became pregnant.
She recently stopped going to school in fear of public humiliation, said the mother of the rape victim.
Finding no other alternative, we brought the matter to the notice of local union parishad member Manoranjan, said the father of the girl.
In an arbitration, Swapan confessed to violating the girl and promised to marry her but he went into hiding a few days later on advice of UP member Manoranjan, he alleged.
Refuting the allegation, Sheikhmatia UP member Manoranjan said that Swapan fled the area and because of that they could not arrange marriage of the girl.
On June 8, the victim's father filed a case with Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-1, accusing Swapan and his sister-in-law in this connection.
Earlier, several other girls of the area fell victim to rape by the accused, alleged locals.