Mother gets daughter 'raped' by HIV+ man

Mumbai, Aug 23: A 16 year old girl was forcibly married to an HIV+ man by her mother in Kalwa area of Thane city, Mumbai.

As per Mid Day report, the victim who is a student of Thane College, was proposed for marriage by her neighbour, an HIV+ man, who promised to support her family financially and also pay for her education.

Girls' ordeal

The girl's indebted mother could not resist the temptation and then she forcibly got her daughter married with the man.

Then, the accused mother even forced her daughter to get into physical relationship with her sick husband.

When she resisted, her mother would bind her hands and stuff a piece of cloth into her mouth to allow the husband to rape her.

"After hearing talk of my marriage, I tried to escape from the house. But my mother chased me till the station and forced me to get off the train. She consumed phenyl to blackmail me into staying. I was left with no option but to marry this guy, knowing full well that he was HIV-positive," the victim stated.

"On many occasions I was beaten with bamboo sticks. When I still refused to give up, my mother forced me to have cold drinks laced with sedatives so that he could rape me," the girl said in her statement to Childline NGO.

She added that if she refused, her mother would pin her down and muzzle her while the accused forced himself on her. She alleged that she was battered by the duo, if she refused. At times, he'd lock her up in the room.

When the accused realised the victim would not accept him as husband, he divorced her on August 1 and stopped supporting the family financially, the girl said.

This angered her mother, who began torturing the victim even more.

Action taken

The victim finally confided about the abuse to her college principal and the matter was brought to the notice of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC).

On Saturday, she was produced before the CWC and referred for medical tests, which confirmed that she was being raped. The panel then asked the Kalwa police station to file an FIR.

As per the victim's statement to the police and the panel, the accused who is in his early 30s, is a distant kin of the family and had been staying in their neighbourhood for several years.

"We have booked the victim's mother as well as the accused, who are on the run. Preliminary investigations have revealed that the mother also had an affair with her neighbour. We have got the address of their native place and teams are on the way to arrest them," said Inspector Dhule of Kalwa police station.

The two accused have been booked under sections 376, 323, 534 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code and several sections of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.

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