Schoolboy turns molester

Relatives foil attempted rape:

It was a customary practice for Thamara, to wake up every morning before dawn and prepare breakfast for her two school going children. She was particularly concerned about their welfare and made sure that the children were fed well before they left home.

Thamara and her two children woke up a bit early on a gloomy day on July 24. It had been raining incessantly throughout the night and area was getting inundated. Thamara was anxious to drop the children at school as early as possible when the rain ceased that morning.

She always accompanied her two children to the Maha Vidyalaya, a village school located a little distance away from their home at Thammita in the Gampaha area. They all had to trudge along a lonely foot path through a paddy field, before they reached the school.

The mother usually provided security for her children by accompanying them to school back and forth. Ostensibly she was nervous to allow her children to proceed to school unaccompanied, fearing for their safety. She suspected the location near a paddy field wasn’t a safe place.

On many occasions she herself had encountered vagabonds, sex perverts hanging around the place. The women folk in the village usually took this route to reach the town because it was a short cut. When they pass some of the street urchins they are sometimes heckled with rude remarks hurled at them.

Something told her the odd characters were dope addicts and feared that they may perhaps attempt to do something nasty while she was alone. Thamara was an attractive woman in her early thirties and she too had many admirers in the village.

On June 24 as usual she set out from her home around 6.30 a.m. with her children. They walked along the lonely stretch of the paddy field and reached the school. That had been the practice for several years after her children attended school.

After dropping her two children at school, she decided to return home early because she had planned an umpteen number of things that day at home.

She had to cook lunch when the kids got back after school. So she walked back home quite briskly through the paddy field. While walking through the paddy field she felt someone’s hand on her shoulder that sent shivers down her spine.

She turned around and found a young school boy around 16 years standing right behind her with a piece of cloth in his hand. He was dressed in a school uniform. She knew from the looks of his eyes the boy was attempting to rape her or do something nasty. Otherwise why must he carry a piece of cloth in his hand, she thought. According to Police, boy may have felt the urge after seeing the woman alone in a lonely spot.

There was hardly any time for her to yell out or call out for any help. There were no body in sight. Before she could say anything, the boy grabbed her placing both hands around her waist with all his might.

The woman yelled out for help but there was no body in the vicinity to come to her rescue. The woman struggled hard with the boy to escape from his clutches but it was a futile attempt.

To prevent her screaming the boy thrust the piece of cloth in her mouth in order to choke her. According to Gampaha police, it was obvious the boy who was sexually aroused had wanted to rape her. While struggling with the boy, she pulled out the piece of cloth from her mouth and threw it away. While doing so both of them fell into the muddy paddy field.

By this time the boy was on top of the woman and their bodies were splattered with mud. Inspite, the boy held the woman tightly with one hand and removed his trouser and underwear with the other. By now he was naked exposing his phallus and was about to rape her.

By using sheer physical force the boy again attempted to gag her by thrusting his underwear in her mouth. The woman however managed to pull that out and screamed again for help.

Her shrieking voice was heard by relatives who lived close by. When they all ran to the paddy field they saw a naked boy running away from the scene. The victim’s uncle gave chase and apprehended the boy suspect. According to Gampaha police the timely intervention had prevented an another rape and murder of an innocent woman.

The suspect was handed over to the Grama Niladhari, Tilakasiri who in turn handed him over to the HQI, Gampaha Police station, Chief Inspector Prabath Dayananda.

The suspect was later handed over to the Police Women and Child’s Bureau at Gampaha for further investigations. According to Gampaha Police, the school boy suspect had shown an abnormal interest in animal behaviour especially their methods of copulation.

However until the suspect is examined by a psychiatrist it is difficult to say whether he was an impish Casanova or a rapist or an abnormal boy for that matter.

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