12 August 2024 06:51 am Views - 13114
BY DILEEP JAYASEKARA
Thanamalwila, August 12 (Daily Mirror) - Police began probe on a case where a 16- year- old girl in Thanamalwila had been raped by 22 schoolboys
Statements were recorded from some of the suspects and parents according to police.
The victim has informed police that she was forced to take liquor before she was gang raped during preliminary investigations. She stated that she had been in love with a schoolboy of the same school she was attending.
She was taken to her lover’s house and gang- raped with several other schoolboys after forcing her to take liquor.they had blackmailed her by showing a video recording of the incident and raped her at times by the schoolboy with whom she had been in love and by 21 others of her school for more than a year.
A 16-year-old schoolgirl in Buttala has delivered a child at Ragama Teaching Hospital.
Buttala Police conducting investigations said she was a Grade Eleven student of a school in the area who had been in love with a 19-year-old.
Her parents, realizing the girl was pregnant, had sent her to her grandmother’s house in Ragama.
However, when she delivered the child, the hospital authorities had informed Buttala Police who initiated investigations and arrested the young man.
The suspect was to be produced before Wellawaya Police yesterday. OIC Buttala Police W.M.J. Bandara is conducting further investigations.