Raped schoolgirl gives birth in Krishnagiri

A 14-year-old school girl, who was allegedly raped by her neighbour some months ago, gave birth to a male child on Wednesday in Tamil Nadu’s Krishnagiri district.

The girl, who was admitted to the Government Hospital in , gave birth to the baby boy after the doctors advised that an ‘abortion’ would endanger her life. Police said her school was informed since it was a case of a minor girl delivering a kid. The Krishnagiri Police then visited the hospital and recorded a statement from the girl. The accused was later quickly nabbed, arrested for raping a minor girl and remanded to judicial custody today, sources added. The minor girl was befriended by the accused Selvam, who worked in a petty shop run by the girl’s grandma, Police sources said on Thursday. Seduction Selvam over a period of time allured and seduced the girl, a ninth class student of the Government Girls Higher Secondary School at Arasampatti, before “repeatedly raping” her, sources said. This went unnoticed until her pregnancy was confirmed a few days ago. As the girl’s father is dead and her mother is working as casual labour in Chennai, her grandmother was unaware of the crime, police said.