Ethnic Garo girl ‘raped’

A 16-year-old Garo domestic help was raped reportedly by her employer in Dhaka’s Gulshan on Wednesday, reports UNB.

The victim was admitted to the one-stop crisis centre of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), said sub-inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of the DMCH police outpost.

Victim’s cousin who works as a cook at a foreign mission said the girl who is from Sherpur had been working at the house of Yusuf at Kalachandpur for the last one month. Both Yusuf and his wife are tailors.

Yusuf violated the girl twice when his wife went out of the house for work in the morning, UNB quoted the cousin as saying adding that the victim fell unconscious following excessive bleeding.

Once she regained her senses, the girl informed her family of the matter and later she was taken to the hospital.

Officer-in-charge of Gulshan police station Abu Bakar Siddique said they were investigating the incident.