Hyderabad: An eight-year-old girl was lured with chocolates and sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old bike mechanic at LB Nagar on Thursday night. Police detained the suspect Rakesh Reddy.
Police said Rakesh Reddy was working in Adityanagar and the girl belongs to the neighbourhood. As Rakesh had been staying in the area for around six months he was familiar to the girl and her parents.
On Thursday evening, when her parents who are daily wage labourers were late in returning from work, she started playing in front of her house. Rakesh called the girl and offered to buy chocolates for her. He then took her to an isolated place on his bike and assaulted her sexually. Later, he dropped her home. When her parents came back she told her mother about the incident. The parents filed a complaint with the police. LB Nagar police registered a case of rape and under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. “We sent the girl for medical examination and detained the suspect,” inspector P. Kasi Reddy said. The Balala Hakkula Sangham blamed exposure of youth to porn for the incident.
