Tamil Nadu: Guest worker molests girl, held

COIMBATORE: A 26-year-old guest worker was arrested on Saturday for sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl near Peelamedu a few days ago.
The all-woman police (east) said Jitendra, a native of Chhattisgarh, had taken away the girl, who was sleeping along with her parents on a construction site at Peelamedu, at midnight three days ago.
“He sexually abused the girl and abandoned her on roadside. When her parents, who are construction workers, found her missing, they launched a search and found her unconscious on the roadside,” a police officer said.
The couple rushed their daughter to the Coimbatore Medical College and Hospital and lodged a complaint with the all-woman police (east), who registered a case under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act and arrested Jitendra. ‘The accused is a construction worker and stays in a room at Peelamedu,” the officer said.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)