NCPA saves 13-year-old girl from further rape

By Jayampathy JAYASINGHE

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The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) has intervened to save a 13-year-old girl from being raped further.

Due to the timely action by the National Child Protection Authority, the suspect who had allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl of his mistress was arrested and produced before the Polonnaruwa Magistrate who remanded him, a spokesman for the NCPA told the Sunday Observer.

NCPA chairman, Jagath Wellawatte, who received a letter from the victim that she had been raped by her mother's paramour instructed NCPA sleuths to investigate the incident.

Chief Inspector of Police, W.D.T Wijesena, a police team comprising Woman Sub Inspector Malani, Woman Inspector Indrani and Sub Inspector Kadirgaman proceeded to Giritale, Polonnaruwa and arrested the suspect after recording the statement of the victim on the direction of OIC, NCPA. According to the JMO's report the girl had been raped, police said.

The inquiry revealed that the girl's mother was married to a businessman who had lived with his wife and her two daughters in Gampaha.

Her mother had an illicit affair with a barber and then eloped with him to Giritale where they set up home. The mother had also taken her two daughters to Giritale.

While at Giritale, the paramour had sexually harassed the eldest girl and had made amorous overtures to her on many occasions. Police also found several love letters written to the girl by the paramour. Last month, when her mother was away from home the man had raped the 13-year-old girl, police said.

Although the girl had complained to her mother she had ignored the matter. As the 13-year-old girl could not bear the agony of being raped further she was forced to write to the NCPA, police said.

Meanwhile, police arrested the mother and produced her before court. She was granted Rs 10 lakhs cash bail and the father was given the custody of his two daughters.