Two minor girls have been admitted to the One-Stop Crisis Centre of Dhaka Medical College Hospital in critical condition after they were raped in the capital’s Hazaribagh and Mirpur areas on Saturday.
Doctors confirmed that they had found evidence of rape in primary examination.
Police arrested the rapist in Hazaribagh incident but yet to trace the other.
Rights group Ain o Salish Kendra reports that at least 378 incidents of rape occurred during January-June this year. Of them, 24 are aged below seven, 63 between seven and twelve, while 42 others are aged below 18.
Among the 129 child victims, 13 were killed after rape, says ASK, based on reports published in 10 national dailies.
Dr Bilkis Begum, coordinator of the OCC, told the Dhaka Tribune: “We have sent samples for forensic test and will be able to say clearly about it after getting the final reports.”
The child from Hazaribagh was raped around 10am on Saturday by a neighbour named Khokon, 30, at his house in Rayerbazar area, the victim’s parents said. Her father is a rickshaw-puller while the mother works as a domestic help.
Locals who rescued the girl hearing screams first tried to settle the matter. But her parents went to the Hazaribagh police and filed the case in the night. The child was admitted to the DMCH yesterday morning.
Muntasir Islam, DMP deputy commissioner of media and publication, said that they had arrested Khokon immediately after filing of the case.
Meanwhile, mother of the nine-year-old Mirpur rape victim said that her daughter had been raped by a youth named Rasel on Saturday evening when she was outside home. Rasel came to her neighbour’s house in a slum near Chhapra Mosque in Mirpur.
She learnt about the matter in the night and filed a complaint with Mirpur model police.
The DMP official said that the police were trying to arrest the culprit.