A 10-year-old child was raped in the capital’s Khilgaon area on Saturday, and police arrested one person in connection with the incident.
The victim, a class-III student at a local school, went missing around noon on Saturday and was found locked in the house of her neighbour Mohammad Khokon, 30, in the early hours yesterday, sexually assaulted, her mother claimed.
“My daughter went to a neighbour’s house to sell chicken around 12pm on Saturday. That is when Khokon invited her into his house. There, he raped her and then locked her in his house,” the victim’s mother told the Dhaka Tribune.
In the middle of the night, Khokon’s landlord Khorshed Mia found the child locked in Khokon’s house and took her to her home. She was then rushed to the One Stop Crisis Centre at Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 2am yesterday.
“We have run forensic tests on the victim and found evidence of rape. However, we will get the details after the report is finished,” said Dr Bilkis Begum, coordinator at the One Stop Crisis Centre, to the Dhaka Tribune.
Police arrested Khokon on the same night for his alleged involvement and brought him to the police station, said Mustafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Khilgaon police station.