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29 March 2024

Uncles rape 14-year-old niece in Lanka

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Colombo - An investigation has been commenced by Kalutara North police to apprehend two uncles, who had raped 14-year-old schoolgirl, a grade nine student of a leading school, ‘Mawbima’ reported.

After the victim’s mother left abroad for employment, she had been kept under the custody of her aunt (mother’s sister) and over the past year, the woman’s husband and his younger brother raped her repeatedly, police said.

In the meantime, she eloped with a youth during the first week of November and has been arrested by the police on November 16.

She has been admitted to the hospital for a medical examination while police are hunting for the uncles and the youth.

Child and Women’s Bureau of the Kalutara North police is investigating.