Jaipur: Woman Arrested for Exploiting 2017 Rape Survivor She Sheltered
According to the police, the woman was arrested, and the teenage girl was rescued after a neighbour contacted the district child helpline.
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A 42-year-old woman who volunteered to take care of a seven-year-old rape survivor in 2017 has been arrested after the girl, now a 15, accused the woman of forcing her to work as domestic help at her house all these years, police said on Monday. The teenager was rescued and the woman arrested on Sunday after the accused’s neighbour complained to the district child helpline, said deputy commissioner of police, Jaipur West, Amit Budaniya. She has been booked for wrongful restraint, wrongful confinement, using criminal force to confine a person, trafficking, exploitation of trafficked persons, and unlawful compulsory labour, the senior police officer said.
Police said the girl, a native of Sawai Madhopur, 150 km away, was raped by a relative in 2017 when she was a seven-year-old. The accused, Madhu Agnihotri (42), read about the rape in a newspaper and turned up at Jaipur’s JK Lon Hospital, where the girl was admitted.
Agnihotri convinced the little girl’s family to let the girl come with her, promising to give the girl a better life than she would have if she stayed with her parents. The girl’s parents, who worked as daily wage labourers, agreed to let her live with Agnihotri for the sake of her future, the officer said.
“After bringing the girl to her house, Madhu started using her as domestic help. She also beat her with a stick, belt, and chain if she failed to do any job properly. Police found several injury marks on her body after rescuing her on Sunday night,” Budaniya said.
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