AMARAVATI: A brutal gangrape of a minor girl by five minor boys has come to light at Bhagatsingh Nagar of Punganur in the Chittoor district of
Andhra Pradesh. The incident had been going on for quite sometime, with one of the accused having lured the minor with money and raped her at a secluded placed first. The others joined him later and all of them sexually assaulted her.
First, a 14-year-old boy raped the 11-year-old and asked her to come again, else "he would tell this to everybody". Out of fear, she went there again, when the boy, along with four of his friends, all minors, gang-raped her. This went on for the last three months. Even as the girl was afraid to tell the sordid tale, her mother observed a change in her daughter and asked her about it when she revealed the entire episode to her mother.
After this, the victim's family and relatives lodged a complaint with the police on Wednesday night. As the police did not respond immediately, they took the victim to the government hospital for tests. The doctors confirmed that the victim's allegations of rape was true, following which the angry residents brutally thrashed the culprits. Police then arrived on the scene and admitted two of the injured, whose condition was serious, to the hospital. They took two others into custody, while one escaped.
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